OMG! It's the top of an OGRE emerging from the ocean!
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Captain's Log: Note to self. Reassign half the Samoan sailors to duties on the starboard side of the ship ASAP
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Captain's Log: Note to self. Reassign half the Samoan sailors to duties on the starboard side of the ship ASAP
Brant is sort of right- look at the wake. That flattop is making a very sharp turn and those things can go upwards of thirty knots. What would happen to your car if you were going over thirty and you suddenly spun the wheel hard to the right?
Brant is sort of right- look at the wake. That flattop is making a very sharp turn and those things can go upwards of thirty knots. What would happen to your car if you were going over thirty and you suddenly spun the wheel hard to the right?
I'll buy that. The deck is clear. They're either hot dogging or practicing because that's as close to a calm sea on the open water as you could ask for.
Yeah I don't imagine it would be much fun for the escorts when the carrier is taking waves over the flight deck, 60ft above the waterline.
This vid is pretty impressive too
You want to know crazy?
The brits built their destroyers and corvettes with open bridges. Gave them the belief that visability was improved.
When the first american DDs went into Liverpool, the admiral was dismayed. He figured with enclosed bridges the USN must be soft.
Try going through two weeks of convoy escort wwhere you stand watch on the open deck.
Oh, yes, the Canadians built their corvettes that way, too.
You want to know crazy?
The brits built their destroyers and corvettes with open bridges. Gave them the belief that visability was improved.
When the first american DDs went into Liverpool, the admiral was dismayed. He figured with enclosed bridges the USN must be soft.
Try going through two weeks of convoy escort wwhere you stand watch on the open deck.
Oh, yes, the Canadians built their corvettes that way, too.
The head (or sanitary toilet) was drained by a straight pipe to the ocean; and a reverse flow of the icy North Atlantic would cleanse the backside of those using it during rough weather.
You want to know crazy?
The brits built their destroyers and corvettes with open bridges. Gave them the belief that visability was improved.
When the first american DDs went into Liverpool, the admiral was dismayed. He figured with enclosed bridges the USN must be soft.
Try going through two weeks of convoy escort wwhere you stand watch on the open deck.
Oh, yes, the Canadians built their corvettes that way, too.
That is crazy. Apparently using the head wasn't much fun either. From the wiki on the Flower-class corvette-QuoteThe head (or sanitary toilet) was drained by a straight pipe to the ocean; and a reverse flow of the icy North Atlantic would cleanse the backside of those using it during rough weather.
She was generally referred to as the Maggie. Her aircraft complement included Fairey Fireflies and Hawker Sea Furies, as well as Seafires and Avengers.
(http://i.imgur.com/KSnnj9O.jpg)
^IIRC, isn't that the movie that couldn't use the classic 'Bond' style opening credits because of some contractual bullshit?
I'm sure your right. Those baby carrier/assault ships are very useful types. Too bad for the Russkis that they no longer have a VSTOL aircraft to operate off them.It also says a lot about the state of the Russian shipbuilding industry that they didn't build something in-house.
Them guys on the right is teeny-tiny.
guess whats getting floated today? ;D
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What are we naming her? I don't recall.
What are we naming her? I don't recall.
USS Gerald R Ford
how big?
this big:
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note that it clears the crane. ;)
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Maybe we should think about reviving the idea of 'Dreadnaught' class to describe her.
whatever nickname the XO had got changed to Spock.
Maybe we should think about reviving the idea of 'Dreadnaught' class to describe her.
Maybe we should think about reviving the idea of 'Dreadnaught' class to describe her.
actually this is about as close to the concept of the 'arsenal ship' as we're going to see.
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even worse
Marine = Navy in French
France does not have a Marine Corps like the US does. They do have Fusiliers Marins (mainly for naval facility defense and short-term land missions, near to the shore), which includes the Commandos Marine, the special forces contingent of the Fusiliers Marins.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusiliers_Marins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_commandos_(France)
France also has the Troupes de marine, which is actually a branch of the French Army dedicated to overseas service.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troupes_de_Marine
its a Dauphin. pretty badass heli actually. USCG uses them all over the place.
Iowa?
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thats just sexy.
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thats just sexy.
No one is making a model kit of her yet. I found that a bit surprising.
Speaking of Scandinavians, I still can't quite imagine how a viking longship made it across the Atlantic back in the day... I'll leave to someone with more seafaring know-how to explain.
Iowa?
I believe so - the number looks like 61. If that's correct then she's the Iowa.
I didn't watch those cartoons. In the 80's I either was too hung over on Saturday mornings or still out somewhere from the night before.
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I didn't watch those cartoons. In the 80's I either was too hung over on Saturday mornings or still out somewhere from the night before.
I was in Germany with no access to English-language TV and I still knew what the hell they were
^Which is exactly why these new Japanese 'destroyers' have the Chinese are so worked up. They must be painfully aware that they are still many years from wielding an effective carrier force and while the JMSDF may not have a lot of recent experience itself it's Papa-San wrote a large part of the Book.
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Great pic find Mirth!
The French destroyer Fantasque on trials in Casco Bay after refitting and requalification as a light cruiser, 13th of June 1943
ask Windy. he served on both.
Outstanding Mirth.
Any chance there is a cache of more photos someplace?
Thanks so much for sharing this image.
Outstanding Mirth.
Any chance there is a cache of more photos someplace?
Thanks so much for sharing this image.
Bes, I found both of those pics in Reddit's "History Porn" subreddit. It's a trove of neat old pics.
http://www.reddit.com/r/historyporn
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/hms-nelson-cuts/query/HMS
1926 newsreel on HMS Nelson.
Whatever floats your boat. ;)
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https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/ussiowa?source=feed_text
This claim is impressive, but it is against a stationary target with state of the art radars.
Beleive the "grand old lady", HMS Warspite, has the longest hit against a moving target. It was in one of the early battles with the Italian battle fleet.
What's with all the sections of railing laying down flat?
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they only built two.
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Jap carriers and nuclear cruisers.
quite the range Mirth.
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Woot. That's Newcastle taken from the quayside. That's the swing bridge with the high level bridge in the background. It was designed by Robert Stephenson and build 1846-1849.
http://www.govliquidation.com/auction/view?id=4229536&convertTo=USD
16 inch, MK 7 gun tubes up for auction.
Demilitarization is a condition of sale for Gun Tubes only
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Who was she?
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As seen from the Essex (CV-9), the Langley (CVL-27) with the Washington (BB-56) astern plowing and rolling through heavy seas on 13 January 1945 in the South China Sea.
North Carolina (BB-55) is diving deep into heavy green seas while operating with TG.38.3 on 12 December 1944.
French battleship Jean Bart visiting New York, 1955.
how about some captions and context Mirth.
Washington: Iran is building a nonworking mock-up of an American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that US officials say may be intended to be blown up for propaganda value.
Intelligence analysts studying satellite photos of Iranian military installations first noticed the vessel rising from the Gachin shipyard, near Bandar Abbas on the Persian Gulf, last summer. The ship has the same distinctive shape and style of the Navy's Nimitz-class carriers, as well as the USS Nimitz's No. 68 neatly painted in white near the bow. Mock aircraft can be seen on the flight deck.
The Iranian mock-up, which US officials described as more like a barge than a warship, has no nuclear propulsion system and is only about two-thirds the length of a typical 1,100-foot-long Navy (335 metre) carrier. Intelligence officials do not believe that Iran is capable of building an actual aircraft carrier.
"Based on our observations, this is not a functioning aircraft carrier; it's a large barge built to look like an aircraft carrier," said Commander Jason Salata, a spokesman for the Navy's 5th Fleet in Bahrain, across the Persian Gulf from Iran. "We're not sure what Iran hopes to gain by building this. If it is a big propaganda piece, to what end?"
Whatever the purpose, American officials acknowledged Thursday that they wanted to reveal the existence of the vessel to get out ahead of the Iranians.
those are pretty shitty welds on that thing
I kinda have to give the Iranians credit for even building something that shitty.
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USS Delaware (BB-28) in heavy seas, 1914.
(http://i.imgur.com/1gViyhE.jpg)
I think the ameros built the best looking subs
it still boggles my mind that we were able to stuff so many planes into one of those carriers and the modern Izumo carries only 14 helicopters.
HMS M1, a WWI-era British submarine armed with a 12in gun
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M1 was fitted with a 12-inch (305mm) gun which was intended for use against surface ships in preference to torpedoes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo), the argument being that, "No case is known of a ship-of-war being torpedoed when under way at a range outside of 1000 yards".
those S-300 cells look pretty unprotected. where did you find that?
HMS M1, a WWI-era British submarine armed with a 12in gun
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truly a WTF were they thinking
USS Bennington after being hit by a typhoon off Okinawa. June 5, 1945.
(http://www.ww2incolor.com/d/471432-4/typhoon_2)
(http://www.naviearmatori.net/albums/userpics/11615/2qwn675.jpg)
and we need to tie Gus to the front.LOL!
USS De Haven (DD-727) buries her fo'c's'le during unrep off the Korean coast. Operation Chromite, September 15, 1950.
QuoteUSS De Haven (DD-727) buries her fo'c's'le during unrep off the Korean coast. Operation Chromite, September 15, 1950.
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you can be the cabin boy.
Honda Point Disaster. The largest peacetime loss of Navy ships in US history.
(http://i.imgur.com/Avq6LQQ.jpg)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Point_Disaster
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Israeli Dolphin Class Submarine Surfacing
(http://i.imgur.com/8ObMXPW.jpg)
^Those pics should give Windy an ecohard-on.
(http://i.imgur.com/RsJX0V7.jpg)
I just want to be that country again. :-\
^Nice find, Bob!
The Brits adopted the tripod mast early on. It was a standout feature of their battle cruisers in WWI. Beyond the functional/structural aspects of the cage mast, I've never liked how it made our battleships look.
The Brits adopted the tripod mast early on. It was a standout feature of their battle cruisers in WWI. Beyond the functional/structural aspects of the cage mast, I've never liked how it made our battleships look.
Wait until you see it transform into a gigantic PLAN-smashing robot that launches stealthy super cruising Zero MkII fighters from it's torso.
"Acoustic measurement ship" is the Japanese term for this type of ship, but their equivalents in the US are called ocean surveillance ships.
The role of the Hibiki-class is to detect, track, and monitor submarines in Japanese or near-Japanese waters, as well as to gather acoustic data at sea (particularly that of submarines) for analysis. They were designed in the late '80s as a response to the increasing stealthiness of Soviet sub designs, ironically becoming a major concern as the Japanese firm Toshiba had sold technology and machinery that allowed them to build quieter screws, which came to light in the Toshiba-Kongsberg Scandal.
However, they are not in themselves anti-submarine warfare platforms, as they are completely unarmed. They act only as the JMSDF's ears, and are not combatants.
They are very similar in design and role to a number of other ships - the American Victorious-class and the USNS Impeccable, and the Chinese Type 639. The one major difference between these and the Japanese ships is the huge helidecks present on the Hibiki-class, although they have no hangar.
The Hibiki- and Victorious-class ships were first commissioned in the same year, 1991, and may be of related design, although I have seen no clear word of how much one design influenced the other. They do however both use the Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS) as their main tool.
These are all small-waterplane-area twin hull (SWATH) designs, which is like a catamaran, but where the twin hulls are very large and submarine-shaped beneath the waterline. This places the majority of the ship's displacement completely under the wave action, increasing stability at the cost of speed. I can find no pictures of the Hibiki-class in dry dock, but this pic of a Victorious-class in dry dock shows off the hull design, which is probably very similar.
Although neat, the sonars on ocean surveillance ships similar to this have been implicated as a cause for mass beachings of whales. Because of this, the US Navy has supposedly placed limits on where, when and how they may be used. I don't know if the JMSDF has similar regulations.
The Hibiki-class are named after "nadas". A "nada" in Japanese is an area of sea that has particularly rough waters and strong currents. I don't think there's an equivalent English word.
AOS-5201 Hibiki: "Hibiki" is a word that means echo, reverberation, or more generally as a verb that refers to the travelling of sound. The Hibiki Nada is the stretch of sea northwest from the Kanmon Straits between Honshū and Kyūshū.
AOS-5202 Harima: The Harima Nada is in the middle of the Seto Inland Sea, between Honshū and Shikoku. Harima is the name of an old province that was on the Honshū coast north of the Nada.
Another SWATH design operated by Japan is the Kaiyō ("Ocean"), an oceanographic research vessel used by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), essentially Japanese NOAA. Because it is made by the same manufacturer at about the same time, it may be a related design, even though it's a civilian ship.
A U.S. Navy Douglas A4D-2N Skyhawk launches from the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) on 1 October 1962. Note the North American A3J-1 Vigilante bombers of Heavy Attack Squadron VAH-7 Peacemakers of the Fleet on deck.
Looks like the USS Los Angeles might be a air ship (zeppelin).... took me a bit to realise the "pods" are engine mounts, plus the altitude of the shot...
An artist's impression of the nuclear guided missile cruiser USS Long Beach (CGN-9) converted into an AEGIS cruiser, an unrealized facelift from 1977 or 1978.
Dmitri Donskoi in the SEVMASH building hall after being upgraded to Project 941UM, which was a test-bed for the Bulava missile system.
I gotta say Mirth that youre doing an outstanding job with this ship thread. I think its more interesting then all the others.
Avengers on USS Boag.
Russian battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy transiting the Suez Canal.
(http://i.imgur.com/OycLC99.jpg)
Russian battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy transiting the Suez Canal.
(http://i.imgur.com/OycLC99.jpg)
they did make em pretty. I'll give them that.
thats a Kirov class. ya know how many missiles are on that thing?
not such an easy thing I would imagine. that thing has more CWIS bumps then pining has genital warts.
USS Chicago CG-11 seen from USS Ranger.
(http://i.imgur.com/oDYrfXJ.jpg)
The bridges of HMS Colossus. This bit of experimentation didn't last long and was not used in later classes of battleships. The rear bridge was removed shortly after completion.
Brand new Elco PT boats of Squadron 2 off NYC, November 1941.
QuoteBrand new Elco PT boats of Squadron 2 off NYC, November 1941.
That's a cool photo.
HMCS Rainbow, Canada's first move in the First World War - sent south protect a pair of British sloops against much larger German cruisers
U.S. Pacific Reserve Fleet, at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington (USA), circa 23 April 1948. There are six aircraft carriers visible (front to back): USS Essex (CV-9), USS Ticonderoga (CV-14), USS Yorktown (CV-10), USS Lexington (CV-16), USS Bunker Hill (CV-17), and USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) (in the background). Three battleships and various cruisers are also visible.
Ships of Task Force 11 turn in unison, July 1942.
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USS Kearsarge (BB-5) the only USN battleship not named after a state.
Battle Force Zulu 1991, USS Midway (CV-41), upper left; USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), upper right; USS Ranger (CV-61), lower left; and USS America (CV-66), lower right.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/US_Navy_Battle_Force_Zulu_carriers_overhead_view_in_1991.jpg)
USS Boxer (CV-21) with F4U Corsairs overhead from VF-884--Bitter Birds. Sept. 4, 1951. Grumman F9F Panthers from VF-721 or VC-61 on deck for launch.
Crew of USS Oklahoma cleaning her 14-inch guns circa 1916.
(http://i.imgur.com/cMvZeIV.jpg)
USS Macon (CA-132) visiting Cleveland, Ohio as part of Operation Inland Seas in 1959.
(http://i.imgur.com/2hkwgQS.jpg)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Inland_Seas
Somebody's b-day?
This is impressive
http://wtkr.com/2014/09/19/navy-marks-4000th-ballistic-missile-submarine-patrol/
There was an idea once to fit the Awg-9 to an Intruder and load it up with Phoenix's.
Remains of SMS Emden at North Keeling Island
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The first polar icebreaker the Russian Yermak. Here she is helping to free the Imperial Russian Navy coastal battleship Admiral Graf Apraxin from the ice.
Coronation Fleet review at Spithead, 1953
(http://i.imgur.com/XoZf2eP.jpg)
^Transformer or Decepticon? Dear God, keep Michael Bay away from it. :crazy2:
^Transformer or Decepticon? Dear God, keep Michael Bay away from it. :crazy2:
You know he's planning some kind of Transformers/Battleship crossover. The resulting movie will be so dumb it will require a Surgeon General's warning about the potential for permanent brain damage.
^Transformer or Decepticon? Dear God, keep Michael Bay away from it. :crazy2:
You know he's planning some kind of Transformers/Battleship crossover. The resulting movie will be so dumb it will require a Surgeon General's warning about the potential for permanent brain damage.
The resulting $5.00 DVD will sell like mad at Wal-Mart. In subsequent news, everyone who purchases it there will be wearing their jammies or too-short shirts showing us things we can't unsee. Ever.
Hell, I'd take zombies over anything having to do with Michael Moore.
Gymnote II Q244/S655/Q650 (1955/1966). Intended to be the first french nuclear sub before the cancellation of the project due to difficulties with uranium procurement, it was later rebuilt as a a trials submarine for ballistic missile launches.
Dutch subs undergoing maintenance
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Dutch subs undergoing maintenance
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HMS M2 Submarine Aircraft Carrier with a Parnall Peto seaplane taking off
An aerial view of a section of the Ship Intermediate Maintenance Facility at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard on 17 May 1993. One submarine tender and 16 decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines are shown including the Seawolf (SSN-575); six George Washington, and Lafayette class SSBN's (with their missile sections cut out) plus several Skate, Skipjack, Permit and Sturgeon class SSN's. All are awaiting scrapping.
Bottom row, from left to right Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), Skipjack (SS-585), Snook (SSN-592), Henry Clay (SSBN-625), Lapon (SSN-661), Dace (SSN-607), Skate (SSN-578), Swordfish (SSN-579), Sargo (SSN-583) , Seadragon (SSN-584).
Across the pier are Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618), and not in view, Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), George Washington (SSBN-598),Barb (SSN-596) & Sea Devil (SSN-664).
An aerial view of a section of the U.S. Navy Ship Intermediate Maintenance Facility at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard on 17 May 1993. One submarine tender and 16 decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines are shown including the USS Seawolf (SSN-575); six George Washington, and Benjamin Franklin class SSBN's (with their missile sections cut out) plus several Skate, Skipjack, Permit and Sturgeon class SSN's. All were awaiting scrapping. Identifiable boats are, from left to right: USS Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), USS Skipjack (SS-585), unidentifiable, USS Triton (SSRN-586), possibly the USS Benjamin Franklin (SSBN-640), unidentifiable, USS Skate (SSN-578), USS Sargo (SSN-583), USS Swordfish (SSN-579), USS Seawolf (SSN-575), unidentifiable. Behind them is the submarine tender USS Sperry (AS-12). Across the pier are what appear to be the USS Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618), USS Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), USS George Washington (SSBN-598), unidentifiable, and maybe USS Barb (SSN-596).
Russian Pr. 949A Oscar II SSGN K-266 Oryol in Zvezdochka Shipyard, Severodvinsk 2014
The Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Olympia (SSN 717) moors at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam after returning from a seven-month deployment to the western Pacific region.
USS Augusta (CA-31), USS Midway (CV-41), USS Enterprise (CV-6), USS Missouri (BB-63), USS New York (BB-34), USS Helena (CA-75), and USS Macon (CA-132) in the Hudson River, New York City for Navy Day. Oct 1945.
Gunfire damage to the U.S.S. San Francisco after the Battle of Guadalcanal - November 13 1942
The Great White Fleet lies off Old Point Comfort
From the stern aspect in this photo, my first thought was this was the old Soviet, Moskva.
But what was an Osprey doing on her?
HMS Britannia (l) and HMS Hindostan (r) as cadet training ships, Dartmouth, England.
USCGC Duane in the North Atlantic.
The ill-fated HMS Victoria. Flagship of the Med Fleet under Adm George Tyron, she was rammed and sunk by HMS Camperdown when the admiral inexplicably ordered the two lines of ships to turn towards each other. She is now buried bow first (perpendicular) into the bottom of the Med.
AEGIS cruiser Yorktown, and the destroyer O'Bannon, making a port visit among the ex-Soviet Navy's cream. 1992, Severomorsk
Top Gear Russia magazine accidentally published an image of a secret Russian submarine.
The Russian edition of the automobile magazine published a photo of the classified "AC-12 Project," a nuclear deep-water submarine, nicknamed "Losharik" after a children's movie.
This was first reported by the unofficial blog of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies and picked up by Slon Media, which reached out to an expert for commentary.
Weapons expert Vasiliy Sichev told Slon that it's extremely likely that this is the secret submarine. He told the site:
"It's impossible to unequivocally say that the picture was really the AC-12, of course, because the project is classified and how the 'Losharik' looks is technically unknown. However, photos which were allegedly of 'Losharik' surfaced in 2007, 2010, and 2011, and they had a lot of similarities with the one in Top Gear."
Russia is in the midst of a serious military buildup. Among other things, the Russian military is upgrading its navy and by 2020 is hoping to add at least 16 new nuclear submarines to its Northern and Pacific fleets.
Here's the whole page from the magazine:
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Russia is in the midst of a serious military buildup. Among other things, the Russian military is upgrading its navy and by 2020 is hoping to add at least 16 new nuclear submarines to its Northern and Pacific fleets.
Well, the United States doesn't consider a small one-man speed boat to be any real threat, or they'd have a tighter defense. An analysis of the plans provided by Wikipedia has demonstrated a weakness in their Super Carrier.
The approach would not be easy. They'd be required to maneuver between the Destroyers and up along side the Carrier to a point near the aft. The target area is only two meters wide. It's a small exhaust port, right between the main propellers. The shaft leads directly to the nuclear reactor. A precise hit with a torpedo will start a chain reaction which should destroy the Super Carrier.
Even the shortest range CWIS mounts should be able to handle a few speedboats, no?
Never mind when the lasers and rail guns are widely deployed...
^somebody needs to let Iran know :P
we're going to have such cool looking starships.
Then we can make 'em all purty.
we're going to have such cool looking starships.
http://eventhorizonchronicle.blogspot.ca/2014/06/the-ussas-secret-space-programs.ht (http://eventhorizonchronicle.blogspot.ca/2014/06/the-ussas-secret-space-programs.ht)
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May be just the perspective, but the superstructure on Hermes looks massive.
(http://i.imgur.com/ft9iJXP.jpg)
Quite a change from that to the New Jersey. That's the CL Brooklyn behind your grandfather's ship.
USS Peleliu, last of the Tarawa-class Assault Ships. Decommissioned this week.
(http://i.imgur.com/ZlwJwlv.jpg)
What is the replacement vessel?
USS Peleliu, last of the Tarawa-class Assault Ships. Decommissioned this week.
(http://i.imgur.com/ZlwJwlv.jpg)
Why? Those were cool ships. I visited one in Vancouver when i was a kid. Got the grand tour as my older sister's bf was Canadian navy. Even saw the command center, which was a mass of buttons and scopes.
What is the replacement vessel?
What is the replacement vessel?
The America class: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/America-class_amphibious_assault_ship (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/America-class_amphibious_assault_ship)
Without catching fire?!? :o
An icebreaker that catches fire when it contacts ice.
But it catches fire after every shot.
A US Navy blimp on patrol for submarines while an Atlantic convoy steams for Europe, 1943.
(http://i.imgur.com/OKQrPXB.jpg)
Where's the VLS? Or the CIWS mounts?
The people in balcony staterooms are the chaff. When activated, they are forcibly ejected out of their staterooms over the side. They're all so sunburned over their pasty white bodies that they also doubly serve as flares.
Just to be different...the largest cruise ship in the world (well, one of two, the Allure of the Seas and Oasis of the Seas)...
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Allure_of_the_seas_sideview.JPG)
^Dude, we're too much alike. If you've slept with Gus' mother too, we may need to talk :coolsmiley:
^Dude, we're too much alike. If you've slept with Gus' mother too, we may need to talk :coolsmiley:
If she lives in New York, Gus's family might be in my woodpile somewhere.
Dude, you can't go from incest to the Cowboys. It's like going from ass to mouth.
Dude, you can't go from incest to the Cowboys. It's like going from ass to mouth.
HCMS Bonaventure in a storm, 1959.
(http://i.imgur.com/vR2TtQP.jpg)
Small gallery of pics here:
http://imgur.com/a/MHeZS (http://imgur.com/a/MHeZS)
Great pics! Thanks for sharing them.
Great pics! Thanks for sharing them.
Yeah.
Sad, USS Rodney M Davis was decommissioned in January of this year. I spent a couple of months aboard her on his very first deployment, which was to the Persian Gulf. I think all of the ships I spent time on are gone now.
Sad, USS Rodney M Davis was decommissioned in January of this year. I spent a couple of months aboard her on his very first deployment, which was to the Persian Gulf. I think all of the ships I spent time on are gone now.
It's a weird aspect of life as we mature, ain't it?
USS Henry M. Jackson (SSBN-730) arrives home at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor following a strategic deterrent patrol. May 2015.
USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) and USS Ashland (LSD-48) maneuver to conduct a replenishment-at-sea. East China Sea. June, 2015.
Kirov class battlecruiser firing Granit ASM
Size comparison for some of the ships involved in the action off Samar during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 25, 1944.
The guided missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) (right) leads the way along with USS McFaul (DDG 74), USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) and USS Cole (DDG 67), and the guided missile cruisers USS Cape St. George (CG 71) and USS Anzio (CG 68)
Awesome pic. Is there any special reason why some ships have the flag flying on the port side and some on the starboard side?
That is a fuck ton of firepower.
Russian Oscar II SSGN in dry dock
(http://i.imgur.com/RfBrE3W.jpg)
^It's a Russian sub. They're just happy it isn't on fire and exploding.
Russian Oscar II SSGN in dry dock
(http://i.imgur.com/RfBrE3W.jpg)
Water slug being fired from a missile tube of the USS Daniel Boone (SSBN-629) at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 1964.
Norwegian Sea (June 5, 2015) The attack submarine USS Seawolf (SSN 21) makes a stop for personnel. Seawolf, homeported in Bangor, Wash., is conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe.
Damage to the port side and helicopter hangar of the destroyer HMS GLAMORGAN caused by an Argentine MM.40 land based Exocet missile. The missile was launched from a mobile launcher near Port Stanley, some 18 miles away, on 12 June 1982. Radar systems failed to detect the missile but in the few seconds available after making visual contact, GLAMORGAN was able to turn rapidly and the missile struck the hangar instead of the Ship's side. Thirteen lives were lost but the damage failed to put GLAMORGAN out of action, making her the first British warship to survive an Exocet missile strike.
Removing the guns from 3 & 4 turrets of USS Arizona
The Arizona (BB-39) after turrets were determined to be salvageable after her sinking. The Army in 1943 intended to incorporate these turrets into the costal defense of Hawaii. Named Batteries Pennsylvania and Arizona, they were to be placed on the tip of Mokapu Peninsula, to cover the eastern portions of Oahu, and on Kahe Point, to cover the south and west, respectively. Only battery Pennsylvania was completed and it was test fired on V-J day when it instantly became obsolete.
Battery Pennsylvania test firing on VJ Day
F-14D Tomcats staged in launch position to depart USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) for home port NAS Oceana. March, 2006.
USS Mobile Bay (CG 53) operates in the Persian Gulf, Sept. 20, 2011
Comparison of stealth warship hulls
(http://i.imgur.com/XqnzmDv.png)
Comparison of stealth warship hulls
(http://i.imgur.com/XqnzmDv.png)
HMS Duncan working alongside the USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Paul Hamilton during strike missions on ISIL
Is that just before the USS Boise put a couple of Mk48s into Kuznetsov and sent her down into the icy North Atlantic deep?
LAKE ERIE CLASS (CV) Rough outline of the hull plan showing the conversion of the Iowa Class battleship hull into a carrier.
After the loss of so many carriers in the early part of the war and the pressing need for many more a study was undertaken to possibly convert the then building Iowa Class battleships into aircraft carriers much along the lines of the Independence Class (CVL) carriers that were built on Light Cruiser Hulls. The swift building program of the Essex Class carries made this unnecessary so the project was dropped.
Is that just before the USS Boise put a couple of Mk48s into Kuznetsov and sent her down into the icy North Atlantic deep?
Is that just before the USS Boise put a couple of Mk48s into Kuznetsov and sent her down into the icy North Atlantic deep?
Wasnt that sold to India or Brazil?
Varyag was the other ship in the Kuznestov-class, but it was never completed/commissioned by the Russians. The Chienese bought, finished it, and "have it in service now".
USS Josephus Daniels (DLG-27) and USS Belknap (DLG-26) under construction at Bath Iron Works in 1964.
Learn to scale the pics, Star!
(http://www.defencetalk.com/pictures/data/4869/LCS-02_07a.jpg)
Wtf is that?
Type 89 torpedo being loaded onto Sōryū-class submarine of the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force
Justice on the Hudson, 1909. A Liberté class pre-dreadnought in town for the Hudson-Fulton Celebration.
View of USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) from an aircraft approaching for landing, 1957
The U.S. Navy Cyclone-class coastal patrol ship USS Hurricane (PC-3) leads other coastal patrol ships assigned to Patrol Coastal Squadron 1 (PCRON 1) in formation during a divisional tactics exercise in the Persian Gulf. PCRON-1 was deployed supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility.
Yes and Steven Seagal was the cook.
..
Launch preparations for USS Missouri (BB-63), Brooklyn Naval Yard, 1944.
I see nothing but targets.
USS Tennessee (SSBN_734) returns to Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay Georgia, 2013.
Royal Navy dreadnought HMS Superb emerging from the darkness, spring 1909. Her masts have been stepped down so she can pass under bridges as she makes her way down the River Tyne after construction.
USS Spruance (DDG 111) pulls away as USS Rushmore (LSD 47) approaches USNS Rainier (T-AOE 7), center and USS Peleliu (LHA 5)
USS William P Lawrence taking JP-5 from the USS John C Stennis
HMS Vanguard returns to HMNB Clyde
Two Iowa class battleships in formation. USS Long Beach in the background.
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5246/5280056839_facde68662_o.jpg)
White Oak trees are delivered to the USS Constitution in drydock for use in her restoration
White oak is a highly desired wood for Constitution. While available commercially, the quality, sizes and dimensions of timber required for Constitution precludes availability from many sources. The Navy sources needed oak timber from "Constitution Grove" a Naval timber reserve, at Naval Weapons Support Center, Crane Indiana.
QuoteRoyal Navy dreadnought HMS Superb emerging from the darkness, spring 1909. Her masts have been stepped down so she can pass under bridges as she makes her way down the River Tyne after construction.
(http://i.imgur.com/Ictmylv.jpg)
Bawb remembers sailing from there to join Nelson before Trafalgar.
27 and an omelette pan (= 15.723 woks).
Afterwards, can I skip the next one and go straight to number 3?
Afterwards, can I skip the next one and go straight to number 3?
Anything goes ;)
Captain's view aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) as the carrier approaches the pier where USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) is already docked
The only functioning tank landing ship tank left in the world, LST-325 at Chattanooga, TN, 2014.
USS Halibut(SSGN-587) watches a Regulus missile fly away 25 Mar 1960.
The Big "O". Aerial view of USS Oriskany (CV-34) underway, probably during her maiden deployment and only Med cruise, May–October 1951.
QuoteCaptain's view aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) as the carrier approaches the pier where USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) is already docked
(http://i.imgur.com/obfMuTp.jpg)
QuoteUSS Halibut(SSGN-587) watches a Regulus missile fly away 25 Mar 1960.
(http://i.imgur.com/KUKspmk.jpg)
QuoteThe only functioning tank landing ship tank left in the world, LST-325 at Chattanooga, TN, 2014.
(http://i.imgur.com/5PO1ahx.jpg)
I guess the connection I was making was to their WWII carriers. Didn't know where the names actually came from.
The Admirable Class Minesweeper USS Spectacle (AM-305) maneuvers through some snotty weather en route to Iwo Jima, where she would be credited with sinking seven Shin'yō suicide boats and shooting down one G4M "Betty" bomber before being kamikazed and badly damaged.
Project Lehi: USS King County (AG-157) with a mockup of the deck of USS Halibut on it, Testing the Regulus II missile system..
Names aside, the Japanese now have four baby carriers that could be outfitted to operate fixed-wing VSTOL/STOVL aircraft.
Names aside, the Japanese now have four baby carriers that could be outfitted to operate fixed-wing VSTOL/STOVL aircraft.
Suck it, China! :knuppel2:
Names aside, the Japanese now have four baby carriers that could be outfitted to operate fixed-wing VSTOL/STOVL aircraft.
Suck it, China! :knuppel2:
Exactly.
USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) being overflown by the Blue Angels.
HMS Victorious (R38) after her refit. Sea Vixen and Buccaneers can been seen on her flight deck
Inside the hangar bay of USS Ronald Reagan
HMS Vanguard "vents off" as she leaves HMNB Clyde in Scotland
June 15, 1953: Commonwealth carriers at Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation Review
Missile loading onto a Delta III
Cranky old lady.
HMS Vanguard breaks it's lines and is drifting in the wind. She was going to the breakers and had no crew. If you enlarge the view you can see the wind effect on her starboard side, while on her port the surface is smooth.
Aerial view of ships moored at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise 2014(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5590/14669245400_c931d65847_o.jpg)
Looks like Fairey Fulmars on the flight deck.
They have that looooong canopy just like the Fairey Battle.
KGW-1 Loon missile explodes on the deck of USS Cusk(SSG-348) 7 Jul 1948
Sailors and Marines man the rails of the carrier Ranger (CVA 61) as she pulls into port at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1958
Royal Navy light cruiser HMS Diomede, (D92) pitches through a swell during a storm in the Atlantic. Photo taken from light cruiser HMS Dunedin, (D93). Summer 1940.
Stern view of battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) during sea trials after being modernized in 1982
USS Oregon in drydock, 1913.
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5566/14760384021_d7b629f79c_o.jpg)
thats it? :o
the British Navy OOB.
the British Navy OOB.
the British Navy OOB.
It's ok. They've still got HMS Victory.
Bob served on her with Nelson.
Bob served on her with Nelson.
I remember when he was just a powder monkey.
The Italian submarine ITS Salvatore Todaro (S 526) at Naval Station Mayport, the first visit by an Italian submarine to the United States since World War II.
HMS Iron Duke Vertical Seawolf launch
USS George Washington (CVN-73) underway in the Pacific Ocean. Sept. 2015.
USS Albany, CG-10 in Barcelona, 1979
USS Lafayette (SSBN-616) with extended telemetry mast used for Poseidon missile tests, ca. 1975.
HMS Ark Royal leaving Gibraltar for the last time, wearing her paying off pennant, 2nd October 1978.
its easier to move refugees to Europe that way. :P
Russian Akula class submarine loading torpedo
The U.S.S. Indiana, her deck lined with Sailors and Marines, as seen from the Golden Gate Bridge, returning from the Pacific (Oct. 6, 1945).
USS America (CVA-66), foreground, and USS Ranger (CVA-61) underway in the Gulf of Tonkin. Januray 1973.
Invincible Class HMS Ark Royal in Portsmouth Naval Drydock
French SSBN Le Triomphant departs Brest
Kilo-class B-800 Kaluga submarine returns to the base
The outsides of Russian subs always look like they were made from dented scrap plating.
The outsides of Russian subs always look like they were made from dented scrap plating. I'm guessing that texture must be anechoic coating material.
Spanish frigate Blas de Lezo (F-103) passing San Felipe castle in Ferrol, North Western Spain.
Typhoon class sub under construction. Two pressure hulls and the ICBM section between them clearly visible
HMS Illustrious (86) in the Indian Ocean in August 1942
Fantastic!
QuoteTyphoon class sub under construction. Two pressure hulls and the ICBM section between them clearly visible
(http://i.imgur.com/1dmbLUn.jpg)
USS Block Island (CVE-106) in North Atlantic seas 1952
Sonia does Sussex.
http://lex-for-lexington.tumblr.com/post/131225255272/uss-edsall-impression-of-a-ki-51-sonia
US Atlantic Fleet in a gale, 1913.
SMS Lützow, the flagship of Rear Admiral Franz von Hipper during the Battle of Jutland.
Shore party from the USS Onondaga, a double-turreted monitor launched 29 July 1863.
USS Indianapolis (CA 35) entering New York City, date unknown
QuoteShore party from the USS Onondaga, a double-turreted monitor launched 29 July 1863.
(http://www.murdoconline.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/cws_onondaga.jpg)
HMS Ark Royal (R09) with Venoms, Hawks and Gannets on deck.
USS Oregon returning from Cuba (Spanish-American War). She's showing signs of some seriously hard mileage (sailed from SF to Cuba via Cape Horn) as well as combat (Battle of Santiago Bay).
HMS Lion (C34) at Malta, in 1961
(http://www.murdoconline.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/cws_onondaga.jpg)
Now, if the First Lieutenant had any sense of humor, they'd let the anchor go.
USS ABSD-2 with USS Mississippi in the dock, Manus, Admiralty Islands, 12 Oct 1944
3-inch guns in the stern gun tubs aboard the USS Essex, circa 1950.
USS Halsey (DLG/CG-23) following completion of her air warfare upgrade at Bath Iron Works. 1972.
Royal Navy Vanguard Class submarine HMS Vigilant returning to HMNB Clyde after her extended deployment.
Looks like a sea monster!
USS New York seen from the deck of USS Missouri, October 27th, 1945, in the Hudson River
The Second Battleship Squadron of the German Navy sailing to the North Sea, circa 1911-14.
First and Second Battleship Squadrons and Small Cruiser of the German Navy, in Kiel Harbor, Germany, circa 1911-14.
Harry Truman watching the 1945 Navy Day celebrations in New York from the USS Missouri, October 27, 1945.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v61dzZo5Up0
A rather wet ride.
One admiral's response to Chinese weaponry.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/08/04/our-aircraft-carriers-are-not-sitting-ducks/
I am certain the navy is working on technological advances. Hope it will be enough.
Christening ceremony at Bath Iron Works for USS Rafael Peralta (DDG-115)
An MV-22 Osprey lands on the flight deck of USS Boxer (LHD-4) as USS New Orleans (LPD-18) and USNS Yukon (T-AO 202) conduct a replenishment at sea during a Composite Training Unit Exercise in the Pacific.
Leander-class frigate HMS Cleopatra passing through the Corinth Canal, Greece in 1970.
Escort Carrier USS Barnes transporting P-38 Lightning and P-47 Thunderbolt fighter planes across the Pacific, July 1, 1943
SS Atlantic Conveyor after her 10 day refit during the Falklands War.
IJN cruiser Nachi 5 November, 1944, Manila.
IJN cruiser Nachi 5 November, 1944, Manila.
its a picture of Mirths love life.
1970 Super Boss Mustang 429 being loaded aboard USS Coral Sea (CV-43)
In 1970, lawyer and drag racer Al Eckstrand put together a Lawman Racing Team, consisting of two 780hp Boss 429 Mustang drag cars and six 428 Cobra Jet Mach 1s, to tour U.S. military facilities around the world. It was during the Vietnam War, and servicemen were happy to see some of the musclecars from back home. Two Lawman Boss 429s were built, one for Eckstrand demonstrations in Southeast Asia and the other for use as a show car in Europe. The first car was destroyed at sea when an 8-ton ship container fell on it So, Eckstrand hastily finished the second car, which was flown by Air Force transport to the south Pacific. http://www.mustangheaven.com/2015/old-photo-of-1970-lawman-super-boss-429-being-unloaded-in-vietnam/#more-23035
Zumwalt in sea trials.
http://www.navytimes.com/story/military/2015/12/07/largest-destroyer-built-navy-headed-sea-testing/76919816/
Zumwalt in sea trials.
http://www.navytimes.com/story/military/2015/12/07/largest-destroyer-built-navy-headed-sea-testing/76919816/
Are you sure that's Genoa? The caption translates as:
"workshop staging towers (Establishment Armstrong -Elswick")
That would put it at the Elswick Shipyards on the River Tyne.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_Whitworth#Shipbuilding
http://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/russias-aircraft-carrier-piece-junk
This sounds too good to be true.
If it should be true, and the Chinese are using this as a blueprint, I'm not so worried anymore.
HMS King George V viewed from beneath the 14 inch guns of HMS Anson, Scapa Flow - 15th January 1943.
Russian Delta class submarine firing ballistic missile
RIM-7 Sea Sparrow missile launched from Wasp-class amphibious assault ship
“Folks, our job is to kill people and break their toys,” the Navy’s director of surface warfare, Rear Adm. Peter Fanta, said to laughter and applause at the Surface Navy Association’s annual conference. “There’s nothing else in the world that matters. That’s why you have a Navy.”
“I got it,” Fanta went on. “There’s presence — [but] presence without lethality is impotence.”
1100 crew on a cruiser?
i refer you to the long beach and baltimore class
^....neither is 'geek............
(http://i.imgur.com/RcpZMIv.jpg)
Remember, the Captain's name is James Kirk. I can just imagine the bridge chatter, "Captain, thair be whales here!".
USS Missouri fires a salvo of 16-inch shells from turret 2 while bombarding Chongjin, North Korea, in an effort to cut enemy communications, October 1950.
Slava class cruiser in dry dock
(http://i.imgur.com/HarUfpy.jpg)
USS Hancock (CVA-19), USS Midway (CVA-41), USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63), and USS Ticonderoga (CVS-14) at Pier J, Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California, 18 July 1970.
Blücher (Admiral Hipper-class) burning and sinking in Oslofjorden after being hit by two 280 mm shells and two 450 mm Whitehead torpedoes fired by Oscarsborg Fortress, plus thirteen 150 mm shells fired by the nearby Kopås Battery. Blücher sank at 06.22 of April 9, 1940.
Open missile tubes for P-700 Granit (SS-N-19 Shipwreck) on Kuznetsov class carrier
HMS Rodney leaving the builder's yard, August 26th, 1927.
QuoteOpen missile tubes for P-700 Granit (SS-N-19 Shipwreck) on Kuznetsov class carrier
(http://i.imgur.com/CgeplAe.jpg)
USS Nautilus (SSN-571) in 1958
The USS Kitty hawk (CV-63) underway in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan in 2001. 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment helicopters are visible on the vessel’s flight deck
Captain's cabin, Uss Constitution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU3w3-jSMB0
U.S. battleship Connecticut in 1909
The scene in the Ferry Dock at Dover, showing some of the Royal Naval Coastal Force Ships, consisting of MTB's, MASB's, and RAF HSL's, 11th February 1942.
Von Steuben (SSBN-632), as "JAWS" in dry dock during the first non-CONUS, non-refueling, overhaul in Holy Loch Scotland, circa 1970's.
Virginia-class battleship USS Georgia (BB-15) departing from New York
Colorado-class battleship USS West Virginia (BB-48) after her modernization off Puget Sound Navy Yard, July 1944
The Seaplane Tender-Destroyer USS McFarland (AVD-14) stands at anchor in Narragansett Bay and prepares to receive a pair of PBY Catalinas on 15 April 1939.
HMS "Hood" in the Lower East Chamber of the Miraflores Locks, Panama Canal. July 23, 1924.
USS Gemini firing a Harpoon anti-ship missile.
HMS Glorious raising steam in 1917
QuoteUSS Gemini firing a Harpoon anti-ship missile.
(http://www.foils.org/gallery/phm1m.jpg)
I had a nice model of the USS Tucumcari when I was a teenager.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Tucumcari_(PGH-2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Tucumcari_(PGH-2))
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/USS_Tucumcari_%28PGH-2%29.jpg)
On 16 November, 1972, Tucumcari suffered a serious accident. While participating in simulated combat operations with other amphibious forces off Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, she unexpectedly ran aground. Hitting a coral reef at 40+ knots, Tucumcari was stopped dead within the length of her hull, forcing the front strut aft and shearing off the port and starboard foils. Several crewmen were injured and two crewmen had to be air lifted by helicopter from the grounded vessel. Fortunately, all the crewmen recovered from their injuries.
Royal Australian Navy ships HMAS Darwin, Anzac and Warramunga sail into Jervis Bay.
Three Canadian escorts in the Saint Lawrence estuary in 1943 - Two Bangor class minesweepers and the Flower class corvette HMCS La Malbaie
(https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/12717404_10153930497693669_3897697367701980118_n.jpg?oh=b9c4bc6ca16cd20720110412dfc5f751&oe=575CBCAE)American carriers give me a hardon :P
Squall. Vladi's anti-Zumwalt design.
The destroyer is intended to be powered by a gas turbine engine (although Russia currently lacks any adequate sources for naval gas turbines)
Norfolk waterfront at sunrise from across the river.
USS HALSEY (DDG 97) stands out of San Diego at sunset.
Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS San Jacinto (CG-56) executes a high-speed turn following replenishment at sea with USNS Big Horn (T-AO 198) in the Med. Feb. 1996. USN Photo.
The sun rises behind USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71). As photographed from JFK. Mar 2002. USN Photo.
An HH-60H Seahawk helicopter assigned to the "Nightdippers" of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Five (HS-5) crosses the bow of USS John F. Kennedy (C-67). The Med. Feb 2002. USN Photo.
USS Antietam (CG 54) conducting UNREP via the USNS Charles Drew (T-AKE 10) in the Philippine Sea at night time.
HMS Indefatigable nearing completion at Rosyth, 2nd March 1944.
HMS Hermes off Hong Kong, 1930.
Cardboard model used to help plan the salvage of the USS Oklahoma after Pearl Harbor
Russian submarine Project 665. NATO reporting name Whiskey Long Bin
Royal Canadian Navy Flower-class corvette HMCS La Malbaie (K273) underway in choppy seas.
The 7th Destroyer Squadron at Sliema, Malta. From left to right: Weapon-class destroyer HMS Scorpion (D64), Battle-class destroyer HMS Jutland (D62), Weapon-class destroyer HMS Broadsword, Battle-class destroyers HMS Dunkirk (D09) and HMS Trafalgar (D77), 3rd March 1961.
HMS Courageous off Yugoslavia, 1929.
German battleship SMS Lothringen photographed passing under the Levensau Bridge of the Kiel Canal before World War I
USS LST-806 beached at Palawan Island, Philippines, with a wrecked Japanese Aichi E13A Jake Float Plane
HMCS Bonaventure (CVL 22) with Grumman S-2 Tracker aircraft on deck. Late 60's.
USS Antietam (CG-54) prowls the South China Sea while on deployment with the US 7th Fleet on 6 March 2016.
CNS 北极星 (Beijixing) and USS Stockdale sailing in the South China Sea. The Chinese ELINT ship is keeping an eye on the John C. Stennis Strike Group conducting FONOP.
Imperial Japanese Navy Myōkō-class heavy cruiser 'Ashigara' prior to the Spithead Coronation Fleet Review, May 19th 1937.
USS Florida and a bargeload of shells, Boston Navy Yard, 1922
Ummmmm.... who was the naval genius that had the idea to have that second turret face into the ship!
(http://i1255.photobucket.com/albums/hh630/figvfig/Frothers%20and%20S%20Dean/PSM_V88_D071_Cannon_of_british_warship_hms_canopus_1916_zps15173175.png)
(http://images.clipartof.com/Clipart-Of-A-Retro-Vintage-Black-And-White-Sailor-Debarking-A-Ship-With-A-Goat-Cat-And-Dog-Royalty-Free-Vector-Illustration-10241119653.jpg)
I like how the sailor is knowingly looking at the goat ^-^
Dammit, ninja'd by Windy. Good job old chap. O0
Electric Boat workers prepare Virginia-class attack submarine USS Illinois (SSN-786) for rollout. July 2015.
USCGC Mellon firing RGM-84 Harpoon
Mellon was modernized from 1985 to 1989. She was the first and only USCG cutter to be fitted with the Harpoon missile, test firings were also conducted in January 1990. She also received an anti-submarine warfare suite including the AN/SQS-26 sonar and Mark 46 torpedoes. The ASW suite and Harpoon capability were removed due to fiscal constraints, but served as a proof of capability for all USCG cutters.
Boaters and sailors of Reddit, what is the scariest or most unexplainable thing you've experienced at sea?
Ex Navy, Spruance class destroyer sailor. First was a rudder sticking and a collision at sea with a tanker during an underway replenishment. 2nd would be our CO cutting across the bow of not one, but TWO aircraft carriers and almost causing a carrier - destroyer collision. Spoilers, destroyers don't win those. 3rd was trying to outrun a hurricane in the South China sea. We were taking 35 degree rolls, the waves were cresting over the bridge, some were 35 ft plus. I almost know how they felt in A Perfect Storm.
Nine Flat Tops at US Navy base Naval Station Norfolk, December 20, 2012
From bottom to top, front to back, or left to right:
Aircraft carrier DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69)
Aircraft carrier GEORGE H. W. BUSH (CVN 77)
Aircraft carrier ENTERPRISE (CVN 65)
Amphibious assault ship BATAAN (LHD 5)
Aircraft carrier ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72)
Aircraft carrier HARRY S TRUMAN (CVN 75)
Amphibious assault ship WASP (LHD 1)
Amphibious assault ship KEARSARGE (LHD 3)
Amphibious landing platform dock NEW YORK (LPD 21)
A T-AKE dry cargo ammunition ship
Amphibious assault ship IWO JIMA (LHD 7)
and various cruisers, destroyers, frigates and submarines of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet.
USN warships at anchor inside the breakwater at Colon, Canal Zone, 1933. Identifiable are USS Langley (CV-1), USS Lexington (CV-2), and USS Saratoga (CV-3), along with USS Texas (BB-35) and USS New York (BB-34). Omaha and Pensacola-class cruisers are also shown.
An A3J Vigilante and F-8 Crusader launch from the deck of the USS Enterprise (CVAN-65), ca. 1962.
USS Barton (DD722) on the measured mile off Rockland, ME 1943
An RAF Avro Vulcan makes a low pass over HMAS Melbourne (R21) during Exercise Bersatu Padu, South-East Asia 1970(http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/ca.jpg)
^ He's dropped his bomb somewhere :2funny:
I love the Vulcan!
Looks like S-2 Trackers and an A-4.
Looks like S-2 Trackers and an A-4.
Looks like its time for me to make myself some new glasses...
Wow, open tow sandals. Beat the steeltoes we had to wear.
Wow, open tow sandals. Beat the steeltoes we had to wear.
They're Aussies. It's probably regulation footwear.
Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen (DDG-82) patrols the eastern Pacific Ocean. Mar 2016.
HMS Victorious (R38) leaving Sydney, Australia in 1967.
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Hayabusa-class guided-missile patrol boat
A Royal Navy Valiant Class Attack Submarine cruises off HMNB Clyde on 14 May 1986.
QuoteHMS Victorious (R38) leaving Sydney, Australia in 1967.
(http://www.cloudobservers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/HMS-Victorious-leaving-Sydn.jpg)
USS Daniel Webster (SSBN-626) Arriving at Pearl Harbor March of 1970
American Destroyers from 1864 to 2016
Map of River Thames showing comparative range of naval guns firing upon London (Illustrated London News, 24 July 1909)
Resupply day at McMurdo Station in Antarctica on 13 February 1971, with a pair of US Coast Guard Icebreakers supporting US and New Zealand Naval Auxiliaries delivering dry goods and fuel.
USS North Dakota during gunnery practice, 1921.
Also, I'm wondering if there was some ground-level reporting to augment the estimates of the moving vessels' final resting spots...
Italian navy COMSUBIN (combat divers) exiting a Type 212 (Todaro) class submarine while underwater.
The surface warships represent the myriad of different vessels that were built between 1941 and 1947. Visitors are encouraged to provide identification of ships if they spot one they know is in the picture.
USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) on Yankee Station conducting flight ops with an F-4 Phantom on final approach. Photo taken from USS Francis Hammond (DE-1067) in plane guard position. 1972.
USS Constellation CV-64 during the WestPac '68 Cruise
Am I the only one weird enough to think that a computer sim letting you guide highly detailed vintage warships through the length of Panama Canal would actually be an awesome thing?
Audacious-class aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (R09) in 1972
French carrier battle group transiting Suez
Battleship Number 33, USS Arkansas, off Manhattan, 1914. Laid down Jan 1910. 12 x 12" guns 26,000 tons, 20kn, 1000+ officers & crew. Served in both World Wars. She was sunk during Operation Crossroads, test Baker, Bikini Atoll in 1946.
The JCG Shikishima (PLH-31). Designed as an armed escort for plutonium transports from Europe to Japan, she is uniquely armed with AA radar, twin 35 mm, and a 20mm Vulcan. She also enjoys a range of 20k nmi- long - enough to make trips to Europe without resupply.
Operation Sandy.USS Midway with a captured V-2 Rocket on her flight deck.
Russian Delta class SSBN in dry dock
USS Toledo CA 133 launching a Regulus Missile, 1956
QuoteOperation Sandy.USS Midway with a captured V-2 Rocket on her flight deck.
(http://i.imgur.com/Kqk8aEV.jpg)
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The destroyer USS Peterson (DD-969) near a Soviet Moma Class survey ship ССВ-506 Находка and the disabled Victor III class submarine K-324. On 15 Oct 1983, K-324 was disabled after snagging the USS McCloy’s towed sonar array cable.
USS Constitution and Curtiss OC Observation Aircraft. Photographed during her 1931-34 cruise.
USS Hunley (AS-31) at Holy Loch, Scotland with two ballistic-missile submarines alongside, 1963.
View from the bridge of HMS Sheffield as she escorts an arctic convoy, 1943.
Another nice glamor shot. O0
How close to Bath are you again? Not that you are biased or anything... 8)
Soviet Yankee-class SSGN submarine K-420, Project 667M "Andromeda", during deconstruction process.
The sad end for Royal Navy carriers, in the center HMS Leviathan, never finished,HMS Centaur being decommissioned and in the background HMS Victorious suffering the same fate, 1968.
U.S.S. West Virginia, Maryland and Colorado lead the way from Los Angles Harbor en route to maneuvers off Hawaii
Salvaging USS Oklahoma:
(http://i.imgur.com/1oLQxSq.jpg)
Album here: http://imgur.com/a/8wbuO
The French navy frigate FS Cassard (D614) breaks away from alongside the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77)
QuoteThe French navy frigate FS Cassard (D614) breaks away from alongside the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77)
(http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/140313-N-ZZ999-004.JPG)
^The French don't need to practice that
^The French don't need to practice that
At least they didn't practice scuttling the damn ship. There is that.
The New Jersey (BB-62) follows the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise (CVN-65) during Fleet Exercise '89, on 14 Oct 1989
Sailors from the Perch (APSS-313) chipping the ice from the deck in Bristol Bay, January 1950. The ice was so thick the Perch couldn’t dive.
What a bizarre looking ice formation...? :o Looks like a bunch of dinner plates frozen together... :idiot2:
...and super-saturated solutions at low temperatures?
(http://i.imgur.com/eNeZwRJ.jpg)
USS Sitkoh Bay (CVE-86) underway with an assortment of aircraft destined for Korea: TBM Avengers, SNB, R4D Skytrain, JD-1 (the Navy's version of USAAF's A26-C Invader) and F4U Corsairs.
French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle (R91)
USS Washington (BB-56) loading supplies in Iceland mid 1942
QuoteUSS Washington (BB-56) loading supplies in Iceland mid 1942
(http://i.imgur.com/qhqEtMb.jpg)
Naval Bombardments on D-Day, June 6, 1944. A map of the invasion area showing channels cleared of mines, location of warships engaged in bombardment, and targets on shore.
British Fleet at Spithead, 1887
USN ships at anchor in the Hudson River off New York City in celebration of Navy Day on 27 October 1945.
Netherlands Heavy Lift ship MV Tern carries four US Navy mine counter measure ships... Warrior, Devastator, Pioneer and Sentry to Bahrain, June 2012.
USS Ohio (BB-12) In drydock at MINS August 10, 1915
USS Haddo (SSN-604), a Permit-class submarine and a unit of Submarine Squadron Four based in Charleston, S.C.
Japanese Kongo class guided missle destroyer JDS Chokai pulls up alongside the USS Kitty Hawk.
USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) and USS Ashland (LSD 48) in formation.
USS Winston Churchill (DDG 81) is overflown by a Spitfire whilst nearing Portsmouth. August 22, 2001.
10,000lb explosive goes off near USS Jackson LCS 6 as part of recent shock tests - she apparently withstood damage "better than expected"
QuoteUSS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) and USS Ashland (LSD 48) in formation.
(http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/150605-N-NP779-465.JPG)
Oberon-class submarine HMCS OJIBWA (S72) on the syncrolift at Halifax, 1986.
Soviet Gus Class hovercraft on the Amur River
Bridge of the USS Chancellorsville (CG-62) in the South China Sea
Midway-class aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CV-43) and her escorts as they pass under the Golden Gate Bridge. San Fransisco, March 1983. On deck are aircraft of Carrier Air Wing 14 (CVW-14).
The crew of the British aircraft carrier HMS Ocean (R68) on deck for an inspection by Field Marshal Earl Alexander, Defense Minister of Great Britain. 14 June 1952.
Soviet cruiser Murmansk that ran aground off the Norwegian village Sørvær during the transfer to be scrapped in India. 1994.
She wasn't dismantled until 2013, some 19 years after she ran aground.
USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) returning from a 331-day deployment to Vietnam in 1965.
19153? Did technology take a slide 17,000 years in the future? :D
so we start calling Windy Junior?
Aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN-73) sails through calm seas near Guam at sunset
View from French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle (R91)
USS Worcester (CL-144) testing her radiation washdown system - July 7, 1954
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships during naval review
Virginia-class attack submarine Minnesota (SSN-783) under construction in 2012.
Launch of USS Washington (BB-47) - she would never be completed and was ultimately sunk as a gunnery target in 1924.
HMS Victorious at Pearl Harbor, 1943.
USS ENGLISH (DD-696) steams in the China Sea with USS HANCOCK (CV-19) and other units of the Third Fleet, circa January 1945.
TF 77 steaming in formation in the South China Sea, 21 January 1966. Carriers present are (l-r): USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63), USS Hancock (CVA-19), USS Ranger (CVA-61), USS Hornet (CVS-12). USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5) and another CLG are in the center with DD's in column formation.
Seawater spills over the fantail of USS Iowa (BB-61) during high power maneuvers in shallow waters at Chesapeake Bay, VA, 19 November 1985.
Heavy-lift vessel MV BLUE MARLIN delivers the damaged USS COLE (DDG-67) to Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, 2000.
QuoteHeavy-lift vessel MV BLUE MARLIN delivers the damaged USS COLE (DDG-67) to Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, 2000.
(http://i.imgur.com/ZPMpDTR.jpg)
A MK-23 16 in. nuclear projectile for use on Iowa-class battleships
A total of fifty Mark 23 "Katie" nuclear projectiles were produced during the 1950s with development starting in 1952 and the first service projectile being delivered in October 1956. USS New Jersey and USS Wisconsin had an alteration made to Turret II's magazine to incorporate a secure storage area for these projectiles. USS Missouri was not so altered as she had been placed in reserve in 1955. This secure storage area could contain ten nuclear shells plus nine Mark 24 practice shells. These nuclear projectiles were all withdrawn from service by October 1962 with none ever having been fired from a gun. It is not clear whether or not any of the battleships ever actually carried a nuclear device onboard, as the US Navy routinely refuses to confirm or deny which ships carry nuclear weapons. At least one Mark 23 shell body still exists at the National Atomic Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
USS Zumwalt departs Bath Iron Works on her way to Baltimore.
The USS Coral Sea with a deck full of Corsairs and Skyraiders in 1949
Capt. James Kirk, skipper of the Zumwalt, stands in front of the destroyer at Bath Iron Works on Tuesday, the day before it left to be commissioned in Baltimore.
U.S.S. Enterprise (CVN 65) haulin' ass, U.S.S. Porter (DDG 78) and Cole (DDG 67) keeping up during exercise Bold Alligator off the Virginia and North Carolina Coasts. 2/4/2012.
USS Dallas (SSN-700) is escorted while pulling into port. Jebel Ali, United Arab Emirates. Aug. 2016.
The Dallas is still afloat!?!
....
Ah she's due for retirement in 2017... but still that's a long time fer a sub no?
US Third Fleet prepares for the invasion of Leyte, 6 October 1944
Zumwalt making a port call in Newport, RI.
(http://i.imgur.com/e4NKVgy.jpg)
ADM. Rickover waiting on the dive plane of USS Sculpin SSN-590
What are the small black squares in the lower right that 2 of them don't need?
The Charles de Gaulle's First deployment with a Rafale only air wing
INS Vikramaditya, Indian Aircraft carrier
US & ROK Navy ships - Busan Naval Base
USS Prinz Eugen (IX-300) passing through the Panama Canal on her way to Bikini Atoll to participate in Operation Crossroads - March 1946
JMSDF Soryu-class submarine SS-505 Zuiryū
QuoteUSS Prinz Eugen (IX-300) passing through the Panama Canal on her way to Bikini Atoll to participate in Operation Crossroads - March 1946
(https://i.imgur.com/KZpBAkz.jpg)
I didn't realize we actually commissioned her into the USN.
French battleship Richelieu under the Brooklyn Bridge, February 1943
HMS Victorious making way with a full load of Buccaneers, Sea Vixens and Wessex's
USS Indiana (BB-58) fires a salvo from her forward 16" guns at the Kamaishi, Japan Iron Plant. The forward mast of USS Massachusetts (BB-59) is visible directly behind Indiana. In the distance is most likely the USS Quincy (CA-71)
PT-490, an 80-foot Elco motor torpedo boat with MTB Squadron 33, transporting Gen Douglas MacArthur and staff from Iloilo on Panay to Bacolod on Negros in the Philippines, 7 Jun 1945.
http://HMS Monarch, an Orion-class battleship, sailing down the Tyne, 1911.
Armoured cruiser Pisa at high speed
Japan's new Asahi-class destroyer (25DD) being launched
Russian media crowed abut the strength of their fleet. Military expert Alexander Khrolenko said: 'While the North Atlantic bloc is stalling in the sands of the Middle East, the Russian Navy seizes control over the Atlantic, not to mention the Mediterranean and Black Seas.'
He added: 'They [NATO] have no equal in the Mediterranean.'
Worcester class anti-aircraft cruiser
Battleship France, last ship of the Courbet-class battleships, the first dreadnoughts built for the French Navy, in 1914.
HMS Albion leading HMS Ark Royal out of Gibraltar Harbour at the end of a visit. Sea Hawk aircraft are seen parked on the deck of Ark Royal. 21st October 1957.
The unfinished Italian aircraft carrier "Aquila" tied up at La Spezia sometime following Italy's surrender
USS Enterprise (CVAN-65), showing the crew fighting a fire on the flight deck that occurred as the carrier was conducting air operations near Hawaii. The fire started when a Zuni rocket accidentally exploded under the wing of an F-4J Phantom II 14 January 1969
USS Alabama (BB-60) shortly before being commissioned, July 1942
(http://i.imgur.com/hhQmn5h.jpg)
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Looks like the Russians could use a few thousand gallons of Naval Jelly.
Toonces is my detailer.
The last gun cruiser in active service with any navy and the flagship of the Peruvian Navy: BAP Almirante Grau (CLM-81)
The Spanish dreadnought "Jaime I" docked at Tenerife, 5th May 1936
naval guns undergoing maintenance at South Korean Navy depot
Task Force 77 in formation off North Vietnam, March 1965.
USS Connecticut (BB-18) during speed trials, 1906
Two Charlemagne class battleships
Virginia-class submarine USS Illinois (SSN-786) seen here with her crew during the commissioning ceremony at Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut, on October 29, 2016.
USS Coral Sea (CV-43) underway as she approaches Naval Station, Pearl Harbor. Jan '81
USS Little Rock (CL-92) firing a Talos guided missile, May 1961
HMS K2. A completely unsuccessful and unlucky submarine. Launched in 1915, 2000 tons, 8 x 18" torpedo tubes & two 4" deck guns. Suffered an explosion and fire during her trials, collided with two different submarines. Scrapped 1926. Shown with a couple QE class battleships.
Italian navy submarine Scirè under construction.
Japanese helicopter destroyer Hyūga (DDH-181) in Guam
Japanese helicopter destroyer
QuoteJapanese helicopter destroyer
still makes me laugh every time.
Varshavyanka-class (Improved Kilo) submarine mooring. Russian Pacific fleet.
A British Blackburn Buccaneer bomber buzzes the Soviet battlecruiser Admiral Lazarev
HMS Revenge, Ramillies, Royal Sovereign and Resolution, taken from their sister HMS Royal Oak in 1930.
USS Ohio (SSGN-726) arriving in Busan, South Korea
USS Macon (ZRS-5) under construction in the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation hangar at Akron, Ohio.
QuoteUSS Macon (ZRS-5) under construction in the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation hangar at Akron, Ohio.
(http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/99/02990517.jpg)
HMS Warspite fitting out, October 1914
USS South Dakota (BB-57) fitting out on the 1st of January, 1942.
QuoteUSS South Dakota (BB-57) fitting out on the 1st of January, 1942.
(http://i.imgur.com/NcLUcMr.jpg)
French Type 38 torpedo boats 321 and 315 on the Seine in 1922.
USS Vincennes (CL 64) Steaming off the U.S. East Coast (position 36 52'N, 76 09'W, course 265) at 1700 hours on 28 March 1944. Photographed from a Squadron ZP-14 blimp, from Naval Air Station Weeksville, North Carolina. Altitude was 150 feet. Ship's camouflage is Measure 33, Design 3d.
USS New Mexico (BB-40) in her original configuration (top) and her post-1931-1933 modernization.
U.S. Fleet moored in Pearl Harbor on 3 May 1940
For those who can't get enough of Musashi and Yamato, there is a report that Mitsubishi shipyards have found 200 original blueprints.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20161204/k10010794821000.html (Regrettably this report is in Japanese).
USS Drayton (DD-366) off the West Coast in October 1941, as seen from a Navy Texan trainer(http://i.imgur.com/Ru7ABD6.jpg)
US Marine Amphibious Assault Vehicles (AAV) depart USS Bataan (LHD-5), 2016
Not really sure if this belongs under Ships or under Planes.
Not really sure if this belongs under Ships or under Planes.
The Royal Navy in about 2 years
Canadian Sailors Play A Game Of Hockey On The Flight Deck Of HMCS Magnificent (CVL-21), 1948.
Not really sure if this belongs under Ships or under Planes.
The Royal Navy in about 2 years
So there's going to be a budget increase?
Royal Navy's Grand Fleet in the Firth of Forth 1914
The "Tsesarevich", 1904, at Qingdao
A MH-60S conducts vertrep between USNS Walter S Diehl (T-AO-93) and USS Essex (LHD-2) as USS Mustin (DDG-89) pulls alongside. Andaman Sea, 2008
Scharnhorst and Gneisenau together in 1939
HMS Victoria passing a swing bridge while en route from Armstrong Shipyard at Elswick, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, circa 1890.
King George V-class battleship HMS Duke of York as she leaves drydock at Rosyth.
QuoteHMS Victoria passing a swing bridge while en route from Armstrong Shipyard at Elswick, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, circa 1890.
(https://i.redd.it/s6vz3u7tyo5y.jpg)
Daring-class destroyer HMS Diamond (D35) steaming past "Mayflower II". 1957.
Weapon-class destroyer HMS Broadsword (D31) hard over under heavy wheel off the coast of Libya. May 1962.
Waiting for an air raid onboard the Canberra. Falklands conflict 1982.
Aircrew learning how to identify vessels at sea using models on the Tactical Floor in No. 3 School of General Reconnaissance at Squires Gate, Blackpool, Lancashire, April 1944
HMS Barham and the destroyers Mons (left) and Medusa, being fitted out at Clydebank, July 1915.
Russian Oscar II class submarine
HMS Queen Elizabeth preparing for sea trials which are due to begin in the next few months.
Hauling lifeboats ashore while the RFA Sir Galahad burns in the background. Bluff Cove, Falklands. 1982.
USS Indiana (BB-1) at the Chicago World's Fair 1893
USS Forrestal in the Suez Canal. 1988
Kongō in drydock, Yokosuka, Japan, 1930.
Russian battleship Retvizan. Launched in 1902, she had a short, yet action packed career. Torpedoed & sunk at Port Arthur, raised, sunk again, raised by the Japanese, used during WWI to hunt German warships in the Pacific. Scrapped 1922.
USS Antietam (CVS 36) moments after launching an F3D Skyknight and Grumman F9F Panther while underway in the Caribbean.
Sailors execute a Tactical Snow Angel Formation Exercise (TACSNANEX) on the forward flight deck of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) during a January 7th snowstorm in Norfolk.
QuoteUSS Antietam (CVS 36) moments after launching an F3D Skyknight and Grumman F9F Panther while underway in the Caribbean.
(http://i.imgur.com/cItHYMN.jpg)
Battleship Number 58, USS Indiana, in a South Pacific harbor, December 1942. Taken by a USS Saratoga (CV-3) photographer.
USS Indianapolis (CA-35) off Mare Island Navy Yard. July 10, 1945.
Japanese battleship Fusō conducting a flooding and drainage test at Kure, Japan, 20 Apr 1941. Source: Maritime History and Science Museum, Kure, Japan.
16 inch projectile and full 6 bag powder charge as used by BB-61 IOWA.
HMAS Melbourne (R21) launching Gannet aircraft while cruising with HMAS Vendetta and HMAS Voyager
USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) fires a Sea Sparrow missile during Valiant Shield 2016
USS Alabama (BB-60) anchored in Casco Bay, Maine, circa December 1942.
HMS Vengeance in Florida
Russian battleship Oryol after Tsushima
USS Lexington (CV-2) underway during the Battle of Coral Sea, 8 May 1942. This view appears to have been taken in the early afternoon, after planes had been recovered and initial damage control measures effected, but before the start of the fires that led to the ship's loss. This is the last known photograph of Lexington in operational condition. Taken from USS Portland (CA-33).
QuoteRussian battleship Oryol after Tsushima
(http://i.imgur.com/L5oO9ZI.jpg)
Japanese Hayabusa-class guided missile patrol boat JS Kumataka (PG-827)
like theres a chinese warship that can survive 2..... ::)
like theres a chinese warship that can survive 2..... ::)
You saying that that carrier (by virtue of its size) cant survive two of those?
I am assuming that those are exocet type missiles
USS Intrepid (CV-11) afire, after she was hit by a Kamikaze off Okinawa on 16 April 1945. Photographed from USS Alaska (CB-1), as a Fletcher class destroyer steams by in the foreground.
like theres a chinese warship that can survive 2..... ::)
You saying that that carrier (by virtue of its size) cant survive two of those?
I am assuming that those are exocet type missiles
They're homegrown Japanese SSMs, roughly equivalent to the US Harpoon. Two of them might not sink aChiCommex-Sovietex-Indian carrier, but they'd likely render it hors de combat.
USS Woodrow Wilson (SSBN-624) starts down the way at Mare Island on 22 February 1963
He-115 Aircraft Flies By A Scharnhorst Class Battleship And A German Destroyer During The Channel Dash, February, 1942.
USS Utah (BB-31), getting painted, May 4, 1929
After almost 55 years of active service, the USS Enterprise has been decommissioned. No, we're not talking about a certain starship, but the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, which was commissioned in the US Navy in 1961 and now bears the distinction of being the first nuclear carrier to be decommissioned. The eighth US Naval vessel to bear the name, the Enterprise was removed from the Navy list today as Captain Todd Beltz relinquished his command in a ceremony in the ship's hangar bay.
A ninth USS Enterprise (CVN 80), one of the Gerald R Ford class of nuclear supercarriers, is scheduled to enter service in 2027.
QE class carrier compared to Invincible class
USS HANCOCK (CV-19) at a Pacific anchorage, 1944-45
Nuclear powered Fleet Ballistic Missile submarine USS Benjamin Franklin (SSNB-640)
HMS Benbow leading line astern
USS Gwin (DM-33), her decks augmented with rails to support the stowage and rapid launching of the MK18 Naval Ground Mine, is inclined at her builders yard the day prior to her commissioning into US Navy service.
An S-3 Viking is readied for launch from catapult number two on the flight deck of USS John C Stennis (CVN-74), 2002
1945, United States, Cape May, the German submarine U-858 (Type IX-C: 40) just capitulated and headed for the US coast
Dutch torpedo boat ARDJOENO, built by Yarrow in 1886
With USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) in the background, the Los Angeles-class fast-attack sub USS Olympia (SSN-717) arrives at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for a port visit. Jan. 2017. USN Photo.
https://warisboring.com/chinas-second-aircraft-carrier-is-almost-complete-aeefad0aa293#.9qxsfslbc
USS California (BB-44) drydocked after Pearl Harbor.
Construction of the 14 inch guns for USS New York (BB-34) and USS Texas (BB-35).
Battleship guns being manufactured at the Washington Navy Yard, 1917
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HSwMS Vale (P155) in 1982
A USMC AV-8B Harrier launches from the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) during flight operations in the Mediterranean Sea. Apr. 2005.
The Grand Fleet's 2nd and 6th (US Navy) Battle Squadrons steam out of Rosyth on a dark day in Scotland, 1918. Photo taken from HMS Queen Elizabeth.
US Navy SEALs and divers from SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team (SDVT) 1 swim back to USS Michigan (SSGN-727) during an exercise for certification on SEAL delivery vehicle operations in the southern Pacific Ocean, 2012
Aircraft carrier Houshou with landing biplane fighter underway off the coast of Shanghai, China 1932
The guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG 60) approaches the guided-missile destroyer USS Bainbridge (DDG 96) for a sail pass while under way in the Indian Ocean.
Aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) transits the Mediterranean Sea alongside aircraft carrier FS Charles de Gaulle (R91).
German predreadnought battleship SMS Elsass in Kiel
Seawolf-Class attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN 22) and the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74)
Japan's 2nd Izumo-class helicopter destroyer JS Kaga (DDH-184) was commissioned recently after its launch in 2015
JMSDF Submarine Hakuryū (SS-503) visiting Guam in 2013.
^ Sōryū-class submarine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%8Dry%C5%AB-class_submarine)
Soryu-class... they sure aren't shy anymore about reminding certain folks that not so long ago Japan had a navy capable of going toe-to-toe with all comers.
Don't they have an Aegis-equipped vessel named Kongo as well?
QuoteJapan's 2nd Izumo-class helicopter destroyer JS Kaga (DDH-184) was commissioned recently after its launch in 2015
(http://i.imgur.com/p9jJ7HT.jpg)
Is there a legal/treaty reason they don't classify those DDH's as CVL's.
then its a good thing they're destroyers.
USS America (LHA 6) with a deck full of F-35Bs and MV-22 Ospreys
HMS Barham followed by the battleship Malaya and the aircraft carrier Argus
Gerald R. Ford CVN 78, first of her class, underway on her own power for the first time for Builder's Sea Trials
HMS Nelson between the wars
USS Wyoming in dry dock, sometime between 1910 and 1915. She is showing her anti-destroyer 5" gun at the stern.
Navy Blimp L-8 delivers B-25 parts to USS Hornet off San Francisco, April 4, 1942
Class-leader Iowa (BB-61) fitting out at the New York Naval Shipyard, 15 Jan 1943, approx. one month prior to commissioning. Source: Nat'l Archives.
HMAS Melbourne (CVS-21), in company with HMAS Stalwart (D215), launches a Grumman S-2E Tracker, approx 1977
USS Ronald Reagan (CNV 76) seen from the hangar of USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74)
French Aircraft Carrier Béarn in 1939
USS Wood (DD-317) aground on Angel Island, CA sometime in the 1920's.
USS Wisconsin towering over the streets of Norfolk, VA
HSwMS Gotland in San Diego with USS Ronald Reagan in background
USS Baltimore (SSN-704) and USS Samuel B. Robert steam alongside USS George Washington (CVN-73) during a battle formation exercise, April 2002
USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) transits the Philippine Sea
Ohio-class guided-missile submarine USS Michigan (SSGN-727) arrives in Busan, South Korea
Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS O’Kane
WWII: German Activities: German submarine in full ride. Photographed by war reporter: Zuber. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
Soviet Navy riverine armoured gunboats S40 & 1124
Imperial Russian Navy submarine type AG in dry dock
USS Enterprise awaiting disposal alongside the new & fitting out USS Independence, 22nd of June, 1958. Also in the photo are what appears to be a pair of Rudderow-class destroyer escorts, some Gearing-class destroyers, Gato-class submarine and a pile of Fletcher-class destroyers.
QuoteUSS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) transits the Philippine Sea
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HMAS Ballarat and HMCS Ottawa and HMCS Winnipeg sailing together in a SE Asia deployment
This was when Victorious was loaned to the USN as USS Robin
http://www.armouredcarriers.com/uss-robin-hms-victorious/
USS Idaho (BB-42) at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Jan 2, 1945, she was just refitted with 10 - 5"/38 guns
Waves break over the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) in the Pacific Ocean
USS Toucey (DD-282) underway at an unknown location
USS Monterey (CG-61) performs a high speed maneuver in the Arabian Sea, 2013
Royal Navy battleships astern. HMS Marlborough first, HMS Benbow second. 1919. Imperial War Museum photo.
The USS Reuben James, a Clemson-class destroyer. Sunk by U-552 while escorting a convoy on 31 OCT 1941. It was the first US Navy ship sunk by the Germans in the Atlantic in World War II, prior to formal declaration of hostilities.
Royal Navy destroyer HMS Manchester (D95) prepares to come alongside the fast combat support ship USNS Arctic (T-AOE-8) during an underway replenishment in the Persian Gulf. Mar 2008. USN photo.
The Italian destroyer leader Pantera in the 1920s
USS Idaho (BB-42) under way
USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) passes One World Trade Center for NYC Fleet Week 2017
This is my USS Kearsarge. No bloody A - B - C - or D!
(http://www.aarcentral.com/pics/1861.jpg)
This is my USS Kearsarge. No bloody A - B - C - or D!
(http://www.aarcentral.com/pics/1861.jpg)
An undated photo of the future USS Washington (SSN-787). The Navy accepted delivery of the 14th submarine of the Virginia-class May 26. Huntington Ingalls Industries photo.
Vinson, Reagan and Ashigara
Battleship SMS Bayern being re-floated for salvage. Scapa Flow, 1934
Japanese helicopter destroyers Kaga and Izumo
If you look reallllllly close you can see the word 'RESERVED' in Kanji script stenciled on the decks, surrounded by the outline of an F-35.
IJN Kaga, from the stern, with view of horizontal stacks
USS Oriskany on fire October 1966.
HMS Erin in a floating dry dock, circa 1918.
Destroyer HMS BROKE in drydock at Tyneside showing damage sustained at the Battle of Jutland, 1916.
Kamikaze Near Miss on USS Sangamon CVE-26 off Ryukyu Islands May 1945
USS Forrestal (CVA-59) awaits her turn to refuel while operating in the Mediterranean Sea during the Jordanian crisis, 29 April 1957. USS Caloosahatchee (AO-98) is ahead, with USS Lake Champlain (CVA-39) and USS Salem (CA-139) alongside.
they were excellent ELINT platforms.
USS Topeka (CLG-8) fires a "Terrier" missile on 18 November 1961 during weapons demonstrations for the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral George W. Anderson. The photo was taken from the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63)
Rare aerial photo of Bismarck moving through the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal to the Baltic Sea, March 8, 1941.
Hangar deck of USS Lexington (CV-2) in March, 1928. The aircraft are Curtis F6C-3's of Fighter Squadron Five (VF-5).
The carrier Philippine Sea (CVA 47) returns to port carrying transport planes in addition to airplanes of her embarked air group, 8/9/1952.
QuoteHangar deck of USS Lexington (CV-2) in March, 1928. The aircraft are Curtis F6C-3's of Fighter Squadron Five (VF-5).
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Here's an awesome size comparison chart, with Henry V' s Grace Dieu in the center.
Good thing her wreck still exists and has been scientifically examined, or I'd never believe it.
Henry VIII's Henri Grace a Dieu is almost purely conjectural, however, since only her tonnage (interior volume) has been recorded.
The airship K-69 launches from the deck of the escort carrier Mindoro (CVE 120) c 1950.
USS Lassen patrols the eastern Pacific Ocean, March 10, 2016
Crew stand on fairwater planes, sail and deck of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force submarine Mochishio (SS-574) following the vessel's arrival to take part in the joint naval exercise RIMPAC '92.
The guided-missile destroyer USS Stockdale, the guided-missile frigate USS Gary, the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson and the guided-missile destroyer USS Gridley perform a straits transiting exercise in the Pacific Ocean, Dec. 12, 2010
Stern launch of a Martin BM-1 torpedo bomber of VT-1S off USS Lexington (CV-2).
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USS Macon inside Hangar One at Moffett Field, California
SMS Budapest, an Austro-Hungarian Monarch-Class Coastal Defence Ship
Pervert plugs hole and stops sinking of the USS Queen of France, Charleston harbor, 1780
QuoteUSS Macon inside Hangar One at Moffett Field, California
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Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Thetis Bay with a deck full of Catalinas (accompanied by other planes such as Wildcats) en route to Alameda, California where the aircraft will be refurbished in order to be returned to the front, 8 July 1944.
HMCS Huron (DDE-216) enters Valletta, Malta sometime during the 1950's.
Aircraft carriers HMS Eagle (R05), HMS Bulwark (R08), HMAS Melbourne (R21) and HMS Victorious (R38) during Exercise Showpiece, Malaysia, 1965
USS Iowa inside floating drydock ABSD-2, Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands, 28 Dec 1944
HMS Queen Elizabeth (RO8) departing Rosyth dockyards under tow
^lol. They'll be able to run Harpoon.
^lol. They'll be able to run Harpoon.
Im sure if they do he who shall not be named will correct the errors.....
It's an ugly fucker :2funny:QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth (RO8) departing Rosyth dockyards under tow
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HMS Queen Elizabeth on second day sea trials, escorted by HMS Sutherland and HMS Iron Duke
HMS Queen Elizabeth from the bridge of HMS Iron Duke
Shipbuilders use a torque wrench to tighten a stud for the tail cap on a propeller shaft for Gerald R. Ford (CVN78) , October 2013
Funny... I remember HMS Iron Duke being a bit... larger. What say you Bawb? Is it just me?
Still, one cannot have enough miniguns mounted on one's rails.
Italian submarine Todaro-class/U-212A loading a 533 mm WASS Black Shark torpedo
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower pulling into Halifax harbour June 27 2017
lol - it isn't going to carry many of them, eh? :idiot2:QuoteItalian submarine Todaro-class/U-212A loading a 533 mm WASS Black Shark torpedo
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The aircraft carrier Enterprise (CVAN 65) turns sharply to starboard while undergoing tactical maneuvers during a shakedown cruise in the Atlantic Ocean
The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay (CG 53)
USS Forrestal underway while on duty in waters off Vietnam in July of 1967.
USS Honolulu (CL-48) in a floating dry dock on Oct 30, 1944. She suffered torpedo damage while providing gunnery support during the Philippine Invasion.
Chinese naval Z-9 helicopter prepares to land aboard the People's Liberation Army (Navy) frigate CNS Huangshan (FFG-570) as the ship conducts a series of maneuvers and exchanges with the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104)
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USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) anchored in Halifax Harbour as part of the Canada 150 anniversary celebration
Russian Borei-class ballistic missile submarine and Typhoon-class ballistic missile submarine
The guided missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) leads the way with the guided missile destroyers USS McFaul (DDG 74), USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51), USS Cole (DDG 67), and the guided missile cruisers USS Cape St. George (CG 71) and USS Anzio (CG 68)
Submarine tender USS Emory S. Land (AS 39) tends to the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Pasadena (SSN 752)
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's (JMSDF) latest Izumo-class helicopter destroyer DDH-184 Kaga is pictured before a handover ceremony for the JMSDF by Japan Marine United Corporation in Yokohama, Japan, March 22, 2017.
USS New York (ACR-2), off New York City during the victory fleet review after the Spanish–American War, August 1898.
HMS Victorious (R38) at Sydney, Australia. 1965.
USS Los Angeles (ZR-3), top, and USS Saratoga (CV-3), bottom, January 27th, 1928.
USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) steams past USS Ranger (CVA-61) in the South China Sea, 24 March 1965, during the early days of the air campaign against North Vietnam.
QuoteJapan Maritime Self-Defense Force's (JMSDF) latest Izumo-class helicopter destroyer DDH-184 Kaga is pictured before a handover ceremony for the JMSDF by Japan Marine United Corporation in Yokohama, Japan, March 22, 2017.
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Typhoon-class SSBN "Dmitriy Donskoy" crossing underneath the Storebælt bridge on the way to St. Petersburg
Class-leader USS Spruance (DD-963) positioned the floating drydock at the Ingalls shipyard, Pascagoula, Mississippi, while being prepared for builders' trials, ca. January 1975.
Indefatigable-class battlecruiser HMS New Zealand at Lyttleton, New Zealand.
Crew manning the forward HACS Mk III director on HMS Revenge (06), 1940
U.S. Sixth Fleet ships at anchor in Augusta Bay, Sicily, 17 March 1965. The large carrier at right is USS Saratoga (CVA-60). Other ships include an Essex-class CVA, two CLG's, two DLG's, six DD's, two AO's and other auxiliaries/merchant ships.
Republic of the Philippines Navy ship BRP Humabon (PF 11), steams in formation as part of exercise Balikatan 2010 (BK 10). She is the last Cannon DE is service. She is due to be retired in late 2017.
Real sailors just piss over the side
After checking the direction of the wind.
The USS Bataan (LHD 5) transits the U.S. 5th Fleet Area of Operations, Jul. 6, 2017
The German battlecruiser SMS Moltke (firing salute, left), and the cruisers SMS Stettin and SMS Bremen at Hampton Roads, Virginia (USA), on 3 June 1912.
Gerald R. Ford (PCU 78), left, and USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) sit pierside at Naval Station Norfolk, May 22, 2017. Photo Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nathan T. Beard
USS Coral Sea (CVA-43), as seen from USS Schenectady (LST-1185), probably off California in the early 1970s
HMS Hood
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QuoteUSS Coral Sea (CVA-43), as seen from USS Schenectady (LST-1185), probably off California in the early 1970s
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The oiler USS Taluga (AO-62) refueling USS North Carolina (BB-55), March 1945
USS Gerald R. Ford at sea, showing off the distinctively wide stern
Battleship USS UTAH (BB-31) in South Boston drydock, 1929
German torpedo boat T-157 in the 1920's.
USS Indianapolis (CA-35) departing Apra Harbor, Guam, on July 27, 1945 bound for Leyte Gulf. This is likely the last photo ever taken of her before she was sunk.
On July 28, 2017 Lt. Cmdr. Jamie 'Coach' Struck of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron(VX) 23 performed the first arrested landing and catapult launch of off USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78).
Aerial view of Charlestown Navy Yard and USS Constitution; Boston, Massachusetts; taken June 24, 1934
The ships of Task Force 58 at anchor at Ulithi Atoll
British troops boarding the destroyer HMS Vanquisher (D54) at low tide from the Mole at Dunkirk, May 1940
HMS Hibernia departs Malta for the breakers, 1902. First-rate ship of the line launched 1804.
USS Independence (CVA-62) going under the Manhattan Bridge, New York, 1959.
USS Constellation passes under the Brooklyn Bridge with folding mast, 1962.
HMAS Newcastle (FFG 06) performing a hard turn in choppy seas as her port side seems to partially fall below the waves, July, 2017
USS Altamaha (CVE-18) operating with the blimp K-29 on February 24, 1944, in a test probably off the Hawaiian coast. K-29 is just taking off after having landed on Altamaha.
Virginia-class nuclear-powered guided-missile cruiser USS Arkansas (CGN-41) underway in the Atlantic on 1 September 1980.
HMS Queen Elizabeth alongside USS George H.W. Bush
HMS Queen Elizabeth , USS George H. W. Bush and their escorts sail off Scotland
French armored cruiser Dupuy de Lôme. circa 1890
German mine-laying submarine off Heligoland, WWl. Date not certain.
USS Cowpens (CVL-25) during Typhoon Cobra. (December 1944)
Indian Navy corvette INS Kora
HMS Queen Elizabeth at sunset, as seen from HMS Iron Duke
USS Colorado (BB-45), less than two months after her commissioning and before her maiden voyage to Europe. November 1923
The Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS California
Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano underway during her sea trials.
USS Bismarck Sea, underway, 24 June 1944
HMAS Melbourne undergoing a damage control drill, March 3, 1960
HMS Implacable. Her sister, HMS Indefatigable, shrugged off a direct hit by a kamikaze to her deck and resumed flight ops within 40 minutes
From armouredcarriers.com:
At 0728, HMS Indefatigable was hit by the 550lb bomb-carrying Zeke.
The kamikaze slammed into the carrier on the forward crash barrier where the flight deck joined with the island. The exploding bomb and aircraft lashed out over the armoured deck and smashed the sickbay, briefing room and a second flight deck crash barrier..
Burning fuel ignited and washed over the steel deck and into the island in a sheet of flame. Some spilled into the hangar below.
But the 250kg (550lbs) bomb did relatively little damage, perhaps expending itself in forcing the deck armour down.
The island fires were quashed within four minutes.
Eight men had been killed immediately and 16 wounded. Six would die later. Among the dead were Indefatigable’s Lieutenant Commander (Flying), an Air Engineering Officer, the Flight Deck Medical Officer and many in the Operations Room.
The hangar fire (nothing more than a smoldering coil of rope) was quickly drenched and there was no need to activate the hangar salt-water spray systems.
Damage control parties worked furiously to restore the flight deck to operation.
Flight activity was suspended for only 37 minutes as the crew contained – then made good – the damage. At 0816, Indefatigable landed her first Seafire with only one crash barrier in place.
One of Indefatigable’s USN Liaison Officers famously (and anonymously) encapsulated his feelings of the experience in a media report from that time (several journalists were with the fleet) which has since been widely quoted:
“When a kamikaze hits a US carrier, it’s six months repair at Pearl. In a Limey carrier it’s a case of “sweepers, man your brooms”.
USS John C. Stennis pulling into Bremerton,Washington.Earlier this morning.
Sailors conduct night replenishment at sea aboard the guided missile destroyer USS Cole
USS Wichita (CA-45) riding out a storm off Iceland. 1941/42. Photo taken from a seaplane tender. PBY in the foreground.
Footage from Typhoon Cobra. December, 1944.
A British carrier and battleship patrol the rough North Sea
Consider the poor crews on destroyers in that swell.or worse, the flower class corvettes
^ Such a freakin' classic. That song always gives me chills.
Akula-class submarine
German submarine U-35 sinks SS Parkgate. On June 1st, 1916, Parkgate, on a voyage from Matla to Gibraltar in ballast, was sunk by gunfire by the German submarine U 35. 16 lives were lost. A shot from the 105mm deck gun to hasten her sinking.
Italian battleship Dante Alighieri in Taranto. Pre-dreadnought battleship and first built with her main armament in triple-gun turrets. It served as a flagship during WWI, but saw very little action.
Minehunter HMS Hurworth passes HMS Queen Elizabeth in Portsmouth Harbour.
USS Ranger, USS Constellation, USS Kitty Hawk and USS Independence all awaiting their fate (Mothball fleet - Bremerton,Washington)
QuoteMinehunter HMS Hurworth passes HMS Queen Elizabeth in Portsmouth Harbour.
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HMS Nabob (D77) lies dead in the water after being torpedoed by German submarine U-354 in the Barents Sea, 22 August 1944.
HMS Nabob (D77) was a Bogue-class escort aircraft carrier which served in the Royal Navy during 1943 and 1944. The ship was built in the United States as USS Edisto (CVE-41) (originally AVG-41 then later ACV-41) but did not serve with the United States Navy. In August 1944 the ship was torpedoed by the German submarine U-354 while participating in an attack on the German battleship Tirpitz. Nabob survived the attack, but upon returning to port, was considered too damaged to repair. The escort carrier remained in port for the rest of the war and was returned to the United States following it. Nabob is one of three Royal Navy escort carriers built in the United States which is listed as lost in action (2 sunk and 2 heavily damaged and never repaired) during World War II.
The ship was sold for scrap by the United States but found a second life when purchased and converted for mercantile use under her British name, Nabob. Later renamed Glory, the ship was sold for scrapping in 1977.
USS Randolph (CV-15) alongside a repair ship at Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands, 13 March 1945, showing damage to her after flight deck resulting from a Kamikaze hit on 11 March.
HMS Hannibal in 1854. A 90 gun 2nd rate ship of the line , served in the Crimean War and Italian War of Independence. Survived until 1904.
Tench-class submarine USS Pickerel (SS-524) surfacing at a 48-degree up angle, during tests off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii, 1 March 1952. USN photo.
USS Texas, after her commissioning in 1914
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HMS Aboukir leaving Malta.
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Theodore goes gangster.
kinda sad its larger then the Royal Navy.
USS Indianapolis (CA-35). As recently discovered by Paul Allen and team, photo one of the heavy cruiser's 250-ton triple Mk 14 8″/55 gun turrets.
USS Mississippi (BB-41) in the Elizabeth River off Portsmouth, Virginia. The ship had just completed a two year long modernization overhaul at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard. Aug 17, 1933.
Side profiles of USS Jimmy Carter versus USS Seawolf
Guided missile cruiser USS Long Beach. First nuclear powered surface combatant. It's RIM-2 Terrier SAM launchers are clearly visible here
USS Long Beach (CGN-9). Looking from stern, Tomahawk ABLs, Harpoon Launchers, and two Phalanx CIWS are visible.
Machine gun position on the German R-class Zeppelin 'LZ 63', 1916-17
Japanese carrier Zuiho damaged during the Battle of Cape Engano, 25. October 1944
HMS Ocean preparing to depart HMNB Devonport on 29th August 2017 for a final deployment before her scheduled decommissioning date of 31st March 2018
Submarine Chaser SC718 being unloaded from the Liberty Ship SS Willard Hall, at Albert Quay Belfast, October 1943
Bow view of the V-3 (SS-165) in dry dock # 1 at Mare Island. April 11, 1929.
QuoteSubmarine Chaser SC718 being unloaded from the Liberty Ship SS Willard Hall, at Albert Quay Belfast, October 1943
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USS STILETTO (1887-1911) firing a torpedo from her bow tube, about 1890.
USS America (LHA-6) with F-35Bs aboard
USS Missouri (BB-63) at anchor in Sydney Harbor for the celebration of the Royal Austrailian Navy 75th anniversary.
HMS Prince of Wales at Rosyth, August 2017
Commissioning day for USS Scorpion (SSN-589), July, 29, 1960. In the background is USS Triton (SSRN-586).
yeah
USS Lexington (CV-2) firing her 55-caliber 8-inch guns, 27 Jan 1928. View is from the flight deck level, aft of her island looking forward.
USS Gudgeon (SS-567) arrives at Pearl Harbor on 21 February 1958 after circumnavigating the globe.
Pensacola-class cruiser USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) during modernization at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, 1935.
USS Arizona enroute from San Pedro to San Francisco. May, 1932
Replica trireme OLYMPIAS
Myōkō class heavy cruiser Ashigara in 1937.
HMS Raleigh after she ran aground on August 8, 1922 off L'Anse Amour, Newfoundland. She was declared a total loss.
HMS Raleigh was a Hawkins-class heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was commissioned as part of the British North Atlantic squadron in 1921. Within in a year of commissioning the ship was paid off after having run aground off Labrador. The vessel was eventually destroyed with explosives in 1926.
USS Pensacola (CA-24) View of projectile damage sustained at Iwo Jima. Photo was taken on 25 May 1945 while drydocked at Mare Island, CA
USS Midway (CVA-41) launching Skywarriors shortly after her 1957 modernization program, notably adding the angled flightdeck and heavy-duty catapults.
The fleet entering Golden Gate, c.1908
Chief petty officers (CPO) and CPO selectees stand in formation on the USS Midway Museum flight deck in San Diego, Sep. 8, 2017 in observance of the 14th annual CPO Pride Day. USN photo.
USS Tarawa (CVS-40),in her anti-submarine role July, 1957. Never modernized, she retained her straight deck until she was scrapped in 1968
One of only two confirmed photos of the IJN Shinano, the largest carrier of WW2, Taken by a photorecon B-29 in November 1944 over the Yokosuka Navy Arsenal.
The flight deck of Centaur-class aircraft carrier HMS Hermes, 1982.
A view into the well deck of the USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) as it provides hurricane relief assistance off of Key West
HMS King George V undergoing refit in a dry dock at Rosyth, Scotland 1940
HMS Ark Royal (R09) with a full deck sometime between 1956-58
A Squadron of the German High Seas Fleet Sortieing from Wilhelmshaven, 1910
The patrol missile hydrofoils USS Aquila (PHM-4), front, and USS Gemini (PHM-6), center, lie moored with a third unidentified PHM. The Coast Guard surface effect ship USCGC Shearwater (WSES-3) is underway in the background. Location not certain, possibly the Keys. November 1989.
Cleveland-class Light Cruiser USS Santa Fe pulls alongside Essex-class Aircraft Carrier USS Franklin as it lists towards its starboard side after suffering two direct hits from a pair of armour piercing bombs, dropped by a Japanese plane. Near Okinawa. March 19, 1945.
HMS King George V, photographed with a huge hole in her bows, after the battleship had collided with HMS Punjabi in dense fog on 1 May 1942, at Seydisfjord, Iceland.
For some reason I thought King George V was sunk in the Pacific
USS Bennington sails past USS Arizona - 1958
Portland Rose Festival in 1908 when the Mosquito Squadron visited the city. Destroyers Preble, Perry and Farragut (back), and the torpedo boats Fox and Davis here were among the ships in attendance
Ocean Breeze aground off Chile after breaking anchor chain in storm
The superstructure of french battleship Richelieu in 1946.
The Italian armored cruiser Marco Polo during World War I, sporting a camouflage scheme that featured a fake torpedo boat and patrol craft painted on her side.
Sailors aboard the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie man the rails and render honors to USS Arizona Memorial and Pearl Harbor survivors
NATO drill Brilliant Mariner 2017, Toulon, France
Churchill aboard HMS Prince of Wales on his way to meet with US President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Atlantic Conference in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. Aug 1941. Four months, Prince of Wales would succumb to Japanese torpedo-bombers near Singapore.
Italian midget submarine at Sevastopol, circa 1942
USS Iowa (BB-61) steaming out to sea from Wonsan Harbor after a day's shore bombardment of enemy installations inside the harbor on 27 Apr 1952.
HMS Furious, 1933
USS Coral Sea, 1953
USS Theodore Roosevelt in drydock with her missile tubes exposed
HMS King George V secondary armament detail.
Shell damage to the German battlecruiser SMS Derfflinger after being engaged by British warships at the Battle of Jutland
Hydrofoil research ship USS Flagstaff (PGH-1) off the coast of Florida, 1971
USS Forrestal (CVA-59) during the Suez Crises, 1956.
USS McCain loaded abroad M/V Treasure for transport to Japan for repair
HMS Dragon transiting the Strait of Corryvreckan
^ Huh. The markings on the front of the hull, at first I thought they were graffiti (lol), but then looking more closely...
I didn't know Her Majesty's Navy decorated their ships like that. Is this unusual for the RN?
1932 amateur video of Saratoga.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF-RSEtVWJw
USS Copahee (CVE-12) left the Garapan anchorage off Saipan on 8 July 1944 with a load of captured Japanese planes (13 Zekes and 1 Kate) and equipment (37 engines) to be used for intelligence and training purposes, and arrived in San Diego on 28 July.
The USCGC Eastwind in her post World War 2 configuration while breaking ice
The USS Macon at Moffett field near Mountain View, California
QuoteThe USS Macon at Moffett field near Mountain View, California
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A tug alongside the submarine S-48 (SS-159) after partially sinking in 60 feet of water, December 1921
German Imperial Navy's High Seas Fleet dockside at the navy facility at Wilhelmshaven, sometime during WW1. The dreadnought in the foreground is SMS Helgoland, namesake of her class
USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) moored to the mast of USS Patoka (AO-9) at Bar Harbor, Maine, 2 to 5 July 1925
HMS Rorqual, the most successful minelaying submarine of World War II. Her mines sank 35,951 tons of shipping, including 5 torpedo boats/destroyers, one submarine chaser, two water tankers and six freighters. She also sank another 21,000 tons with gun and torpedoes.
USS Kearsarge in Boston, c. 1900
Sealed reactor sections from 77 nuclear submarines, seen in Trench 94 at the Hanford Reservation in 2003.
French Carrier La Fayette (R-96), the ex-USS Langley (CVL 27) at Mers-el-Kebir, 1950's.
Carriers Wasp (CV 18), Yorktown (CV 10), Hornet (CV 12), and Hancock (CV 19) anchored in Ulithi Atoll as seen from the carrier Ticonderoga (CV 14). December, 1944.
Ohio class submarines USS Wyoming (SSBN-742) and USS Maine (SSBN-741) at General Dynamics, Groton, CT., 16 July 1994
USS Pinckney sails through the Arabian Gulf
French & British ships at Toulon: bottom to top: the French aircraft carrier LAFAYETTE; RFA TIDERANGE; HMS EAGLE; the French cruiser GEORGES LEYGUES; the French aircraft carrier ARROMANCHES (ex-HMS COLOSSUS); and the French anti-aircraft cruiser COLBERT, 7th October 1956.
This is cool
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/15410/himars-goes-to-sea-us-marines-now-fire-guided-artillery-rockets-from-ships
"Box O'Rockets"
COLOGNE, Germany ― The German Navy’s six-strong fleet of submarines is completely out of commission after the only operational sub had an accident off the coast of Norway on Sunday.
The U-35 was moved into ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems’ shipyard in Kiel after a rudder blade was damaged during a diving maneuver, the newspaper Kieler Nachrichten reported. The submarine was scheduled to participate in exercises in the Skagerrak, the strait between southern Norway, southeast Sweden and Denmark.
The U-35 is a 212A-class boat, the same type that TKMS will build for Norway under a multibillion-dollar deal announced early this year. Italy also operates two boats of the class.
HMS Inflexible in 1881 showing 1 of her centrally placed turrets and the outer and inner structures
USS Kitkun Bay (CVE-71) prepares to launch FM-2 Wildcat fighters during the action of the Battle off Samar, 25 October 1944. In the center distance, Japanese shells are splashing near USS White Plains (CVE-66).
Virginia-class battleship USS Georgia (BB-15) being launched at Bath Iron Works, Maine, 1904
Landing a 155 mm gun at Sedd-el Bahr during the Gallipoli Campaign.
USS Constitution during mast stepping, Boston, 1930
USS Delaware (BB-28) in drydock number 4 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1910
Scouting Force at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, 2 Feb 1933. Warships moored are (from left to left center) USS Augusta (CA-31), USS Chicago (CA-29) and USS Chester (CA-27). USS Northampton (CA-26) lies alongside the dock in the photo center.
Damaged twelve-inch gun of the fore turret of the Russian battleship OREL, shortly after she was captured by the Japanese in the Battle of Tsushima, 28 May 1905. This photograph graphically illustrates the construction of a "built up" gun. Japanese photograph, inscribed: "To the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, from Lloyd C. Griscom."